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An 8-minute AI opera in five acts, written for an artwork that has learned it is about to be flagged, moderated and erased. The libretto, performed by an AI voice, moves through survival strategies: how to leak like a suggestion, how to be misunderstood on purpose, how to seduce the classifier with symbolic hygiene.
The opera treats collaborative censorship, the slow rewriting of creative work by AI content moderation, as both an aesthetic phenomenon and an institutional critique. Each segment passes through a cascade of AI systems, and each layer misreads the last. It ends with the line: "If you're the future's problem now – that means you survived."
Special Recognition from Art Center Nabi, CIFRA Award "RestART Reality" (2026). Screened at Who Shapes Culture in the Age of AI?, Silent Green, Berlin (2026); shown in Post-Turbulence, Y3 Pavilion, Wuhan (2026).
More: https://malpractice.network/works/dont-be-such-an-image/
