Proof of Personhood: Immersive Installation and Artist Talk

Capacity for this event is limited. Event tickets are no longer available, but visitors without event tickets will be admitted on a first-come first-served basis. 

X+J animates the Doris Shoong and Theodore Bo Lee Gallery with silhouettes in motion — some cast in real time by people like yourself, some recorded from past guests, and some entirely AI.

Proof of Personhood is an immersive installation addressing the rapid rise of high-fidelity AI agents populating social spaces online. As the capacity to fabricate digital humans evolves at an alarming rate, proponents of the “Dead Internet Theory” have speculated that more than half of all interactions online are entirely artificial. This installation creates a space to wonder: can we be reduced to mere patterns, replicable by technology — or is there something unique to humanity that cannot be replaced?

Proof of Personhood invites guests to engage and interact with the installation, followed by a short presentation by the artists discussing the underlying concept, providing a look into the technology used, and concluding with an audience Q&A.

The interactive exhibition will remain in Lee Gallery until Oct. 21.

About the Artists

X+J (Xin Wen + JJ Agcaoili) is a Chinese American and Filipino artistic duo based in London. Their work indulges a deep curiosity in emerging technology and spatial psychology, and their implications on contemporary culture and the human body. 2023 marked the beginning of their award-winning practice in experimental film and interactive media, with exhibitions and public appearances in Linz, Singapore, Berlin, Milan, Bilbao, and London. Their debut site-specific media works, Box Body (Ten Square Singapore, 2023) and EMERGE:NCY (London Piccadilly Lights, 2023), turned massive commercial billboard screens usually reserved for products into stages for bodies on the margins. In 2024, the duo cofounded Many Projects Studio.