In 2016, I designed a participatory transmedia project on the subject of the relationship between human beings and artificial intelligences. This project was embodied in a website (https://www.la-singularite.com/), but didn’t get any further development. Today in 2024, at a time when the use of generative artificial intelligences is exploding, it’s coming back to life.
“The Singularity” is a collaborative transmedia project launched in 2016 by Benoît Labourdette. Around a thematic spine, over a long period of time (several years), film creations, theatrical forms, exhibitions, creative workshops in various fields are developed... autonomous forms, by various artists, which feed off each other.
The “technological singularity”, commonly referred to as “The Singularity”, the thematic core of this transmedia project, is the hypothesis of a future tipping point, between 2030 and 2040, at which machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, and power over the world will completely escape human beings. These science-fiction hypotheses are now being deployed in our daily lives. They deserve to be better understood, diverted and appropriated through artistic creation.
