This film is part of the program OFFFFFFFIFFFFFFFA — Vertige de l’après demain.
NEURODUNGEON brAin pAin is a video essay / mixtape created by NeuroDungeon — YESSi PERSE, designed with artificial intelligence. It explores the mystification of AI and its impact on social automatisms, agency, memetics, and the new state of automation of immaterial cognitive work and creative processes.
All sounds, music, and voices have been generated by artificial intelligence. The video features different NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) from the NeuroDungeon universe (collaborations with queer artists and performers from Barcelona), AI-generated videos, and “found footage” from various social platforms.
The video essay / mixtape is 30 minutes long and structured in three parts:
The introduction connects the event of “The Inversion” (the replacement of humans by AI bots) to the “Dead Internet Theory” popularized on 4chan, as well as the “Reverse Turing Test.“
The central section explores the NPC (Non-Playable Character) meme, popularized on TikTok, as an example of social automatism, analyzing its implications in the gamification of work and the (self-)exploitation of bodies on social networks.
The final part speculates on the future of the Internet as a habitat and the collapse of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning models, a phenomenon known as MAD (Model Autophagy Disorder) or “AI devouring itself.”
NEURODUNGEON brAin pAin is a video essay / mixtape created by NeuroDungeon — YESSi PERSE, designed with artificial intelligence. It explores the mystification of AI and its impact on social automatisms, agency, memetics, and the new state of automation of immaterial cognitive work and creative processes.
All sounds, music, and voices have been generated by artificial intelligence. The video features different NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) from the NeuroDungeon universe (collaborations with queer artists and performers from Barcelona), AI-generated videos, and “found footage” from various social platforms.
The video essay / mixtape is 30 minutes long and structured in three parts:
The introduction connects the event of “The Inversion” (the replacement of humans by AI bots) to the “Dead Internet Theory” popularized on 4chan, as well as the “Reverse Turing Test.“
The central section explores the NPC (Non-Playable Character) meme, popularized on TikTok, as an example of social automatism, analyzing its implications in the gamification of work and the (self-)exploitation of bodies on social networks.
The final part speculates on the future of the Internet as a habitat and the collapse of generative artificial intelligence and machine learning models, a phenomenon known as MAD (Model Autophagy Disorder) or “AI devouring itself.”
| Director | Yessi Perse |
| Script | Yessi Perse |
| Production | NeuroDungeon |
| Artistic Direction | Yessi Perse |
| Artist | Jules Durand |
Session
• Agora Hydro-Québec (CO-R500), Pavillon Coeur des sciences
Saturday, march 15, 2025, 05:00 p.m. — 08:00 p.m.
Production
Yessi Perse
YESSi PERSE is a Fiction Suit. A Hypersona (a hyperstitional interface) that allows their users to enter into alternative narratives. YESSi uses the political strategies of science fiction and urban fantasy to speculate on avatar identity, the digital technofeudal economy, and future ecologies focusing on how to overcome the idea of human and the anthropocene/capitalocene through posthuman and xenofeminist technologies to mutate the collective mind. YESSi PERSE’s artwork is formalized as “sigils” around the institutional art context and the club scene, with performativities characteristic of party contexts (using the DJ / VJ Set as a format), Cosplay, Larp, Online Communities and Virtual Worlds. Their work hybridizes speculative design, sound experimentation, video art, CGI, video games, the production of immersive experiences in virtual reality and the mutation of institutional artistic performance. Founders of the digital art collective and music label “NeuroDungeon” in 2020, whose first actions have been the ‑3D avatar based- virtual raves “NeuroXcape”, online music festival “Nu:cenosis” and “NeuroXcape Hybrid Reality Rave” in the framework of “Metaverses: realities in transition” by Matadero Madrid and L.E.V. (Laboratory of Visual Electronics).
Biographical notes provided by the film team.
Biographical notes provided by the film team.
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