2025/08/07

Pro-Labour Chatbot Among Régine Debatty’s Top Re:humanism Picks

Art blogger Régine Debatty returns from the fourth Re:humanism biennial at Rome’s Fondazione Pastificio Cerere with her signature list of recommendations. IOCOSE’s whimsical video installation AI-Ludd (2025), for example—a top pick—follows a pro-labour chatbot encouraging workers “to deceive bossware, disrupt automation, resist capitalist constraints, and enjoy life,” Debatty writes. “It takes a machine to tell us how much machines have enslaved us!”

Metadata: People: , / Organizations: , / Locations: / Contributors: / Photo: IOCOSE, AI-Ludd, 2025. Installation view Re:humanism 4 at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma. Photo: Carlo Romano.
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