In a world where AI is increasingly used to generate spam content, what if we allowed a group of robotic Spambots to tell their stories? Spambots gives us a provocative look at the connection between automation, AI and the industrial agricultural world, offering an unusual and thoughtful perspective on their interaction. Each Spambot has only four keys, but their collaboration enables the writing of text generated by a neural network trained on a version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. By replacing some of the novel’s words with pig-related expressions, the result is an eerie parallel between Huxley’s dystopia, in which characters belong to certain castes, and industrial farm animals, which follow their predetermined fate.

Bio

Neil Mendoza’s work combines sculpture, electronics and software to bring inanimate objects and spaces to life. He explores themes of the absurd, the humorous, the futile and the surreal. He has exhibited work and talked at conferences around the world, taught classes on art and technology at UCLA and Stanford and co-founded the art collective “is this good?”.