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Proxy Daemon
2022
AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
SINGLE CHANNEL VIDEO, STEREO AUDIO
43:53 MIN
‘Proxy Daemon’ is an audiovisual piece that recontextualizes Akira Kurosawa’s 1980 film ‘Kagemusha’ to explore the potentialities at the intersection of authority, mythology and artificial superintelligence (ASI).
‘Kagemusha’ tells the story of a petty thief in feudal Japan with an uncanny resemblance to the revered warlord of the powerful Takeda clan, who gets recruited as a body double for the warlord. When the warlord is shot during a siege, the thief is ordered to assume the warlord’s identity and lead his clan, hiding the warlord’s wounding (and eventual death) both from his enemies, and his clan. It’s a story about the nature of authority and power, and what people are willing to believe and do.
‘Proxy Daemon’ is comprised of 17 scenes from the original film, as well as one new animated sequence. The scenes from ‘Kagemusha’ were selected, reordered and rescored to fit a loose narrative of a future ASI entity assuming power by impersonating a human leader.
The animated scene is the climax of the piece, where the medieval symbols and concepts from ‘Kagemusha’ collide with contemporary ideas and concerns around technology and artificial intelligence. The creation of this scene involved using visual AI’s DALL·E 2 and Midjourney.
‘Proxy Daemon’ premiered on October 25, 2022 at Radial, which is held at Fridman Gallery, New York, NY.
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