FoUBARthes: Death of the Author

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2024 · 3 min

Overview

Media performance artist Dayna McLeod asked ChatGPT to write an increasingly snarky and heated dialogue between Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault about The Death of the Author, a famous essay by Barthes. This script is performed by AI actors of the theorists, with Dayna’s AI doppelgänger, DaynAI, acting as master of ceremonies.

Directed by Dayna McLeod

Cast