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VO

Nicolas Gourault
France
19 min.

The deadly accident caused by a software-driven car brings to light the vulnerability of even an AI to fault. VO proposes an issue of ethics regarding the instrumentalization of AI: is the agency of a computer reliable, or must it be fully regulated?

VO proposes a current discussion regarding posthuman existence: how much freedom can you concede to non-human agency and where do you draw the line? Did the accident caused by the software driving the vehicle in “VO ” make a mistake or was it a deliberate transgression of the AI? Or was the human driver guilty? But above all, does AI have the ability to take on human tasks and is it ethical to subjugate its work? The ethical questioning behind the accident unfolds juxtaposed with an almost soothing mapping of a city built sensorially by the software’s vectors. (Emilian Lungu)

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NICOLAS GOURAULT

Nicolas Gourault  is a french artist and filmmaker trained in contemporary art and in visual studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His work is imbued with this double training and aims at linking visual issues with political concerns by means of a documentary critique of new media. He focuses on the forms of alterity which resist within so-called controlled spaces.

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LENGTH: 19 min.

YEAR: 2020

COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: France

DIRECTOR: Nicolas Gourault

SCRIPTWRITER: Nicolas Gourault

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nicolas Gourault, Alan Guichaoua

EDITING: Félix Rehm, Nicolas Gourault

SOUND: Arno Ledoux

PRODUCTION: Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains

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