An experimentation with poetic expression through performative text manipulation of ChatGPT ‘s “Terms of use” text, as edited, recorded and screened in a video format. The act of editing becomes the artwork itself. Positioned at the intersection of conceptual art, digital performance, and video art, the work emphasizes the creative potential of evolving textual forms, while exploring how performance can be set in dialogue with technological change and the proliferation of artificial intelligence in recent years.
The chosen document functions as a “monolith” in the contemporary world, symbolizing how people, activities and structures have been massively affected by digital systems. The video stages the live manipulation of the text on screen, exploring the possibilities of poetic expression through its textual content, identity and structure. The writer experiments with different forms of textual adaptation, reiteration, erasure and recomposition, resulting in textual outcomes that shift between literature, manifestos or legal discourse. By foregrounding the materiality of text on screen, it invites the audience to experience language not just as content, but as movement, shape, or digital presence.

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