Generative moving image installation
This piece was exhbited at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham as part of Phreaking Collective's inaugural show, BitRot
In 2021, Chris Pelkey was fatally shot following a road rage incident
For the sentencing in May this year, his family used a combination of generative AI tools to create an impact statement video featuring Pelkey's likeness
The Arizona judge who oversaw the case, Todd Lang, seemed moved by the use of AI at the hearing
Gabriel Horcasitas, the defendant, was given the maximum available sentence
The piece reverse-engineers the impact statement video. Using the same script, it contrasts more lifelike versions and more noticeably artificial versions of Chris Pelkey with the original video.
