SWARM
Melinda Chapman
SWARM is a multi-art performance work that explores artificial intelligence and transhumanism through the lens of its impacts on seven family members and one synthetic person in the 2030s.
SWARM investigates impending technological innovations by juxtaposing a near-future storyline with existing social, corporate, and political frameworks riding on the poorly regulated boom of Big Tech. This work’s essential argument is that without public awareness and action, this web of exploitations will remain and underpin new, much more invasive technologies.