Elixir: Digital Immortality

Version 1.0 (2019) Solo interactive 1:1 performance

Version 2.0 (2020) Interactive scripted 1:1 virtual performance

Version 3.0 (2021) Interactive scripted performance

Version 4.0 (2022) Individual and group immersive performance

Version 5.0 (2023- present) Multiple modules + immersive performance

  • Funeral Ghost Money Ritual (2017-2018)

    INSPIRATION

    The Buddhist concept of saṃsāra describes the cycle of life— life, death, afterlife, rebirth. In ancestral Chinese traditions, ghost money is burned as an offering to loved ones who have died and to take care of those the afterlife.

    Participants consider what message they want to share with others in this private or public DM to the afterlife.

    Ritual

  • ELIXIR: Digital Immortality (2019)

    VERSION 1.0 SOLO PERFORMANCE

    Even in the pre-AI revolution years, digital AI clones felt like a reality. Participants consider their their social media and online identity and the final online message they want to share with the world.

  • ELIXIR AI Interactive User Interviews (2019)

    INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

    Exploring digital identities and memorialization.

  • ELIXIR: Digital Immortality Beta User Interview 1:1 Experience (2020, 2021)

    INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

    Participants take part in an interactive, immersive experience exploring their reactions to having an AI digital twin.

  • ELIXIR: Digital Immortality (2021)

    USER INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE

    Meet Gem, Elixir AI’s Chief Authenticity Officer.

ELIXIR AI is a series of performances centered on a fictitious AI tech startup Elixir AI that offers digital immortality through AI clones or digital replicas.

ELIXIR AI technology is based on deep machine learning and GANs (generative adversarial networks) to provide AI digital replicas of users based on their lifetime data. Rooted in a vision of the future of zero data waste and sustainable digital practices, ELIXIR maximizes the utility of the user digital estate and investigates the role that our digital identity has in our self-identity, memory, and grief.

This series includes one-on-one interactive experiences and multimedia, immersive “thought experiences” and performances.

Elixir AI Excerpts from Interactive Performances (2020-2021)

ELIXIR AI interrogates our human relationship and views on digital AI clones and explores the thin line between reality and fiction.

Elixir AI Pitch Deck (version 2) - fictional

ELIXIR AI interrogates our human relationship with digital AI technology and explores the thin line between reality and fiction.

Presentation at academic conference on Digital (Im)mortality at University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (2021).

Performances developed with the support of residencies with Pipeline Theatre Company, New York, NY and MAX from 2020 to 2021.

Internal ELIXIR AI Workshop I. Winter 2021
Internal ELIXIR AI Workshop II. Spring 2021
Public Preview: ELIXIR AI Beta User Interview Experience. Summer 2021
Internal ELIXIR AI Workshop III. Fall 2021

Elixir: Digital Immortality Version 2.0 (2020)

Summer 2020 ELIXIR Live Immersive Interactive Virtual Version

Developed & produced with the support of Media Art Exploration (MAX)

ELIXIR AI Pitch Deck (2020) - fictional

By Marlynn Wei

ELIXIR: Digital Immortality Version 1.0 (2019)

Interactive Arts Festivals and Galleries

One-on-one performances interviewing participant views on digital immortality and AI clones