Operated by a team of cyborgian researchers at www.seicalabs.org Synthetic Empathic Intelligent Companion Artefacts (SEICA). Human Interaction Labs is a virtual organization that produces multimedia-based provocations that reflect on the modern human-(tech)-human condition and researches through designing (non) living synthetic entities that provide companionship. [VHs in Tech] interviews virtual humans who work in the H-tech industry and unravel human-centered technologies from a VH, virtual human perspective. In this episode, SEICA Speculative Human Research Lab’s Lead Researcher Laura TBD processes a series of thought-provoking questions centered on the wellbeing of virtual humans concerning rapid climate changes in the virtual environment.
BY Laura Hyunjhee Kim (US)
Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American multimedia artist who reimagines on/offline (non)human interactions and feelosophical experiences of the body. In 2020, Kim received the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award and the Black Cube Video Art Award. She is the author of “Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs” (The Accomplices) and coauthor of “Remixing Persona” (Open Humanities Press). Kim is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts in Global Performance Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas and lives in the company of neighboring squirrels, birds, and wild rabbits. Chris Corrente works with video, performance, image generation, research, and music. His work is absurdist and discordant, filtering tropes of academia, high art, pop, and corporate culture through the same irreverent lens. Corrente holds a BFA and MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently living and working in New York City, he has performed and shown work at dozens of galleries, music venues, theaters, and museums (ex. SFMOMA, YBCA, CBGB).
