Join us as we screen the film “Andra8: my favorite software is being here” (2020-2021) a film by Alison Nguyen to be followed by a discussion between artist Alison Nguyen, Lukas Brasiskis, Associate Curator of Video and Film at e-flux, and Selby Nimrod, Assistant Curator at MIT List Visual Arts Center.
“Andra8: my favorite software is being here” is a body of work centering on a computer-generated woman living and working in an apartment in a virtual void. Andra8 is a digital laborer surviving on human data culled from her work as a virtual assistant, content creator, emoji artist, and virtual trainer. Andra8 is monitored and becomes increasingly concerned with the effects of surveillance and the demands of online labor that is key to her survival. The discussion will focus on the performative aspects of the Andra8 body of work that extend into Alison Nguyen’s new video, “history as hypnosis.”
We encourage you to view “history of hypnosis” (2023) on view in “List Projects 26: Alison Nguyen” in the List Center Bakalar Gallery prior to the film screening.