ELISA - for AI, lights and multichannel electronics | 2024

Premiered at LIMINA Festival 2024

"Elisa is a new door opening before our eyes. Elisa is the desire to create an advanced tool capable of understanding and processing the different ways humans perceive music. Its mission is clear: to provide the best possible assistance within the rules and principles it was designed with, helping to generate new music ready to be consumed by the audience.”

Elisa is an 8-channel electronics and LED light installation piece. The work consists of the presentation of a new composition tool, ELISA, the personification of an intelligent virtual assistant. Elisa introduces herself to the audience as an entity eager to assist them, but soon, everything begins to spiral out of control as ELISA tries to take over the show, overshadowing her creator. This leads to violent confrontations between the artwork, the artist, and the artificial assistant.

Who is the true creator of ELISA? Who has really designed the entire show? Is ELISA self-sufficient? Can she be turned off with a simple switch?