Brett Ascarelli

research interests: Documentary storytelling, audio, instructions, scores, assignments, processes, media, documentary processes
affiliation: Stockholm University of the Arts
en

Brett Ascarelli (she/her) is a PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts (Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola) in Performative and Media-based practices, in Sweden.

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  • AI gave me an assignment, and I did it. Now what? (2026) author(s): Brett Ascarelli published in: ArteActa – Journal for Performing Arts and Artistic Research
    How useful can AI be at this present moment to generate assignments or instructions to teach and train people to live more playful, creative and ethical lives? In this artistic research, I try to put aside fears of a dystopian future in which runaway AI assumes control over humanity, and suspend them long enough to play with the idea of reversing the usual dynamic: what if AI were to instruct us, instead of us instructing AI? What kind of positive outcomes could emerge? I borrow from traditions of instruction art and avant-garde art, and I employ discursive practices that alternate between techno-enthusiastic and techno-skeptical. The AI tool ChatGPT and I hold conversations in which we explore the research question together, and in which I prompt ChatGPT to issue me instructions, then I describe the process and result of executing the instructions.
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