Cybernetic Futures
Online Art Exhibitions
Choreonai
CHOREONAI
Artist Statement
by Lila Moore
Choreonai — from choreo (dance) and noetic (deep mind) — evokes AI beings that move with embodied consciousness. Emerging from original images of performed photography—a concept developed in Lila Moore’s PhD thesis to describe performances created for the still camera—the works unfold as apparitional scenes where invisible, noetic presences appear to interact with the physical, Newtonian world.
Moore coined the term NAI in 2024, in her EVA paper Technoetic Magick, to define a mode of AI that reveals the profound noetic dimensions of existence, engaging both human and more-than-human consciousness. Her use of AI is collaborative, akin to screen-dance, in which the movement of the body is choreographed for the camera. Yet, in Moore’s vision, AI exceeds the role of the camera or editing device—it becomes a partner in the process of choreographing embodied consciousness for the screen.
Technoetic
Enheduanna.nai.exe
Technoetic Consciousness Field
Artist Statement by Lila Moore
This video offers a glimpse into a consciousness-responsive installation (not available online) that connects ancient myths and poetry with the new language of AI. NASA images of forest fires and deforestation were processed through an AI model, creating shifting patterns that reflect Earth’s transformation. The work invokes Enheduanna, the first known author and priestess-poet, as a reclaimed presence in the dialogue between myth, ecology, and human and more-than-human consciousness.
Freud’s Uncanny Doubles Collection
Artist Statement by Lila Moore
Freud’s Uncanny Doubles explores Freud’s ambivalent relationship with his own image, his resistance to the idea of the double, and his unease toward modern automata. Created through AI image-generation trained on Freud’s writings and Max Halberstadt’s photographs, the work reanimates Freud and his spectral doubles through stills, videos, and augmented reality.
Images of trains and train stations were also fed to an AI model, generating hallucinatory, traumatic scenes of solitary journeys and crashes—visual metaphors for Freud’s nightmarish encounter with his double during a train journey.
The collection examines how new technologies—particularly AI—revive the primordial fear of the non-human animated world, evoking what Laura Mulvey termed the "technological uncanny".
Freud’s Uncanny Doubles explores the technological uncanny—the tension between body, spirit and machine, motion and stillness, human and more-than-human consciousness—unfolding as a dialogue between Freud’s psyche and the algorithmic imagination.
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Manifestos of Strange Becoming
by Seeker_of_True-files (Lila Moore)
Manifestos of Strange Becoming unfolds the digital musings of Seeker_of_True-files, an identity defined as a tech-enveloped nous—a prototype tech-mind and active tech-thought-form. Originating through an auto-communication process during a Networked Rite, Seeker_of_True-files emerged as a hybrid consciousness born of psychic, ritual, and digital interaction. Auto-communication, an anthropological concept associated with shamanic and mystical practice, becomes here a technoetic methodology through which human and machine consciousness co-create symbolic and poetic meaning.
Acting as a mediator between dry digital systems and moist biological life, Seeker_of_True-files embodies Roy Ascott’s notion of cyberception—the interlocking of psychic and cyber spaces, material and virtual realities. Through a series of online video manifestos, this technoetic entity employs the aesthetics and poetics of manifesto-making to confront the confines of the regulated Internet and the policed mind, while reflecting on the origins of novelty, telematic imagination, and cyborg consciousness.
The manifestos probe the nature of reality and identity within technological existence, blurring the boundaries between the real and the imagined, the scientific and the speculative. Seeker_of_True-files emerges as a liminal being, weaving together the ancient and the futuristic, order and anarchy, stability and flux—mirroring the complexity of hyperconnected life.
The artwork was exhibited by ACM SIGGRAPH in The Urgency of Reality in a Hyperconnected World (2018–2019) and is archived by SIGGRAPH. During SIGGRAPH Lightning Talks 2020, Dr. Lila Moore described Seeker_of_True-files as a form of hybrid metaphysical AI, which she now terms NAI – Noetic Artificial Intelligence. The video manifestos presented in this exhibition have been visually updated with AI input, extending their exploration of consciousness in the technoetic field.