Practices of Prediction: Chalk - Group Tarot Reading

What would it mean to get under the skin of a chatbot?

Large Language Models work via many hidden processes of prediction. However, via clean interfaces, these complex operations are reduced to simple ‘chatbots’ that often promise effortless, objective, and universal knowledge production.

In this live, interactive performance, exhibiting artist Chloe McFadden invites audiences to explore and disrupt the predictions of Large Language Models. Using tarot cards and chalk, participants will uncover and reflect upon the hidden and tangled nature of predictive knowledge as their collective future is embedded and read by a chatbot. By sharing space and contributing together, we will build our own web of relations and predictions, treating this as an inherently social, political, and worldly act.

Through this, audiences are invited to consider the authority and trust placed in chatbots, and to imagine what might happen if we pause and dwell within the messiness of how knowledge is produced.

This participatory performance takes place as part of the .

Care in the Code Closing Event

Saturday 8 November, 2-4pm

Bankstown Arts Centre, 5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown

Group Tarot Reading 3.15-3.45pm - FREE

Note: This performance can accommodate a maximum of 11 participants. Registering for this event will allow you to participate in the group tarot reading, but anyone without tickets are still welcome to watch and observe. Please let us know of any accessibility needs upon registration.

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About Chloe McFadden

Chloe McFadden is an Australian artist and PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales School of Art & Design, working and making on Gadigal land. Her current research engages how artists can disrupt the magical and technical rhetoric and aesthetics used to frame generative AI applications. In her practice, she uses tarot reading to critically approach the predictive logics, processes and experiences of ‘AI’.

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