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As of Tuesday, August 24, the Montreal edition of MUTEK is kicking off with a substantial amount of live art to discover: In total, there's going to be 27 total digital works by local and international artists shown at outdoor and indoor venues across the downtown core of the city, and among them is one particular one that was on display at Fonderie Darling in 2020: An art installation by Montreal artists Anna Eyler and Nicolas Lapointe named D.o.t.T.D (Dance of the Techno-demons) serving augmented reality hot dogs.
Combining an AR application for your phone, a website, and an in-person performative installation, the art combines involves the artists preparing and serving augmented reality hot dogs to participants who get a free hot dog and receive a unique fortune on their own smartphones or tablets. The fortunes are personalized to each person and are unique; you can get a new one with each tap.
"Each prognostication is the product of an artificially intelligent hotdog techno-demon, which is accessed through the digital medium. Ranging from the sincere to the absurd, these 'fortunes' are both meditations on collective anxiety and speculations on our shared future," the artists write in the statement posted to their website.
"By inviting participants to in turn consume their own virtual prophecies, the artists question how we might get closer to the digital divine, while acknowledging the ephemeral union inherent to all consumption. D.o.t.T.D. simultaneously occupies the hallucinatory space of the Internet."
You can try it now by visiting the website for the art installation and feed a picture of a hot dog to it.
Here's their full artist statement from the original performance:
D.o.t.T.D (Dance of the Techno-demons) will be located at Le Parterre du Quartier des spectacles from August 24 to 30, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.