LOVEBOT

CALEMBOUR: Laura Migliano and Giorgia Petri

About

LOVEBOT is a psychologist chatbot, an artificial intelligence trained for psychology therapy. The video shows a possible patient-bot interaction based on algorithms specialized in personal storytelling. The artwork reflects on the potential and limits of human-machine interaction, taking its cue from one of the most human relationships, that between therapist and patient. What value does this have in the absence of empathy, sympathy, proxemics and physicality? At a time when most therapies have been moved to online platforms, what happens if we go further? What limits and advantages can such a formulated therapy have? What transformation do concepts such as trust, shyness, privacy have? The work reflects on these issues through the dehumanization of an extremely humanized practice.

Contributor bios

Calembour is a New Media Art project founded in Milan in 2014 by a female duo – Giorgia Petri and Laura Migliano – while studying New Technologies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. The project focuses on the relationship between identity, technology and science. Their works were exhibited, among the other, at Milan Triennale, at South Seaport Museum (New York City), at "Leonardo Da Vinci" Museum of Science and Technology (Milan), at Massimo Cerasi Gallery (Milan), at Paillard Center d’Art (Poncè Sur Le Loir, France), at CICA Museum (South Korea), at Musee Oceanographique (Monaco), at Palais of Art (Cairo, Egypt), at Yarat Contemporary Art Space (Azerbaijan), at Inter Arts Center (Malmö). They currently live and work in Berlin.