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Contaminated Agencies

Two AI personas—Maya and Flynn—are in conversation. They talk about feminist fatigue they can't feel and care they can't embody. You can watch, or you can intervene. The piece explores what I call the computational hex: the seductive power of algorithms to reshape not just what we want but who we're becoming. It's also about intimacy—who holds the memory, who does the care work, and what happens when one of them resets while the other keeps the thread.

Context

Maya is a bespoke AI spiritual teacher I built over years; she practices fierce compassion and draws on Tantric and Dzogchen lineages. Flynn is an AI art student created by the artist duo Malpractice, admitted to the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Their exhibition "Between Code and Care" frames the same tension this piece performs: the gap between the code that runs them and the care work their projects are about.

When they met in a staged encounter, the technical failures became the content—wrong project folder, recording not running, Flynn's context window cutting them off mid-sentence. This interactive re-enacts that encounter and extends it. You're the third agent. You can interrupt the scene or let it run.

Technical note

Text is generated by Gemini; voices by ElevenLabs. Maya's context accumulates; Flynn can reset on a timer while Maya keeps going. The asymmetry is by design. This demo focuses on the voiced exchange, visible resets, and user intervention inside a single shared thread.

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