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Angela Washko, Free Will Mode (Digifeminists Burning Down The House) (2020)

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Stewarded Collection: a2p, Spring 2020
full screen
Medium

Animated GIF

Edition

Edition of 10

Created

2020

Issued

14 April 2020 on Bitmark, asset 2662808d06a5…

Provenance

Re-minted on Ethereum in 2025 as a2p-v2: 11 of 11 editions (contract)

Stewarded Collection
Released by

a2p

Blockchain

ethereum (migrated from Bitmark)

"Free Will Mode" is a series of videos captured by the artist as she uses the late 90's PC game The Sims to place human artificial intelligence into architectural situations which test the constraints of their ability to respond to the environments they've been placed in. When the game is set to "free will mode," the AI humans in this strategic life simulator eat when hungry, urinate when necessary, sleep when tired, socialize when bored... until eventually they don't feel like it anymore. In these environments, they operate as surveilled alogrithmic performers. In this short looping gif edition for a2p, several anonymous Sims based on famous digifeminist net artists react after setting their simulated kitchen on fire.

Editions, as the exchange left them on the Bitmark chain

  • AP Angela Washko
  • 1/10 Jeremy Couillard
  • 2/10 unknown
  • 3/10 Kristin McWharter
  • 4/10 Sam Lavigne
  • 5/10 Tega Brain
  • 6/10 aaajiao
  • 7/10 Payne ZHU 佩恩恩
  • 8/10 Marina Zurkow
  • 9/10 Chris Coleman
  • 10/10 A.M. Darke
Free Will Mode (Digifeminists Burning Down The House) by Angela Washko