In this 45 minute performance-lecture, “Dr. Jacobs” tells a tale of creating an AI descendant. Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Jacobs is approaching retirement and has been invited to join Afterglow, a secret corporate program through which a select group of ageing academics are invited to use AI models and turn themselves into “AI professors.” These are full-body humanoids who have extracted the entire intellectual make-up of the human professor, but who are required by contract to be 20 years younger. Dr. Jacobs explains the pains and pleasures of working for Afterglow and the birth of splendidly queer offspring
Photo’s and videos of the performance-lecture that took place at Ghent University’ LilI’s Unruly Spring, were taken by Dr. Giulia Nazzaro.
