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The Oracle of Delphi (2025)

Despina Papadopoulos
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Through a series of photographic assemblages that focus on texture, depth, and atmosphere, “The Oracle of Delphi” documents interactions between these assemblages and AI language models. The work demonstrates specific ways that current AI systems struggle to comprehend material qualities and contextual relationships in personal narratives, particularly when dealing with dimensionality, surface qualities, and emotional resonance. By analyzing these limitations, the work reveals the gap between human and machine perception of materiality and affect, while suggesting potential approaches for developing more nuanced human-machine encounters. Through these material encounters and a deliberate “kinking” of established patterns, the work demonstrates how algorithmic systems might be recrafted from processes of reduction into expansive sites of co-creation and possibility.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsaffect, promptology, materiality, embodiment, performativity, practice-based research, Assemblage
date20/09/2024
published22/07/2025
last modified22/07/2025
statuspublished
affiliationRoyal College of Art & New York University
copyrightDespina Papadopoulos
licenseCC BY-NC
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3019036/3019037
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/artact.3019036
published inArteActa – Journal for Performing Arts and Artistic Research
portal issue13. AI (and) Art: The Poetics of Prompting
external linkhttps://principled-design.com


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nameKinky Nanotubes
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nameI Walk in Texture
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nameAli Baba and the 40 Thieves (In Indigo), Capitalism and its Discontents
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nameTalking to Claude
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