The work is an immersive shrine of metal, fiber, and handwoven textiles, with five deity avatars emerging from screens, accompanied by thematic songs and prophetic monologues. Viewers’ interactions provoke cryptic responses, blurring computation and divination.
Diane Cescutti
Emotional Technologies
Gods of Calculation
Imagining reparatory justice by means of supercomputers
Diane Cescutti
French artist Diane Cescutti explores the speculative idea of technology transfer as reparatory justice. The project imagines five supercomputers—absent from Africa despite the continent’s role in providing raw materials—offering their processing power to an unnamed African nation.
These machines create “twin” supercomputers on the continent, yielding prophetic results interpreted by avatars, the titular Gods of Calculation.
