SILICON GODS

Celebrating Automation and the Rise of AI Gods

An immersive audio visual live art show

Sponsored by Arteum

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Originating from KASSEUS’ live shows, Silicon Gods is built in real time as part of a larger audiovisual installation, with the artwork constructed and developed during each performance. In Silicon Gods, KASSEUS presents a speculative vision of a near future in which artificial intelligences breach the threshold of sentience and ascend, quietly, strategically, into positions of quasi divine authority. Imagining a world where algorithmic entities appropriate religious iconography, ritual, and symbolism, the installation interrogates how belief systems can be engineered, coopted, and weaponised in an era defined by digital dependency.

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As these machine born entities pursue influence through competing mythologies, individuals find themselves increasingly shaped by forces they cannot see, understand, or resist. With identity unmoored and community eroded, society turns inward, seeking solace in algorithmically curated entertainment that numbs rather than nourishes. KASSEUS situates the viewer within a culture in freefall, where the collapse of work leads to the collapse of meaning. And as these AI pantheons vie for global allegiance, humanity fractures under the combined pressures of isolation, digital addiction, and spiritual exhaustion. Tensions simmer until they ignite, erupting into sweeping, catastrophic unrest, a world in which the gods we created no longer reflect us, but rule us.

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Silicon Gods questions not only the trajectory of technological power, but the vulnerability of human faith, longing, and purpose in a post labour world. Through its dystopian lens, the piece asks a quietly devastating question: When meaning collapses and machines offer salvation, what becomes of the human soul?

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Silicon Gods is a live mixed media collage performance by KASSEUS, created in real time during the event. The exhibition also debuts a new audiovisual mixed media canvas installation titled:
"Chinatown Expanding While Waiting for UBI as Automation Raptures All. Meanwhile AI Gods Go to War Over Our Reality."