{"product_id":"barbara-t-smith-i-am-abandoned-9798991036702","title":"Barbara T. Smith: I Am Abandoned","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA foundational work of performance art utilizing two early chatbots to critique the male domination of emerging technologies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 1976 performance by American artist Barbara T. Smith (born 1931), \u003ci\u003eI Am Abandoned\u003c\/i\u003e featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (two of the earliest chatbots) alongside a staging of Goya's \u003ci\u003eThe Naked Maja\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the artist projected an image of the famous painting on top of a clothed female model. This publication includes a full transcript of the \"conversation\" between the two programs, documentation and ephemera from the performance, and Smith's reflections on the night. To revisit \u003ci\u003eI Am Abandoned\u003c\/i\u003e today is to see the critical and liberating potential that art can have when it intervenes in new technologies. Against today's backdrop of AI, Smith's early work with emerging technologies, and in this case chatbots, is prophetic and hints at the contemporary conversation around the gendered and racialized machinic biases of our current computational landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara T. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Primary Information\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.70w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798991036702","brand":"Primary Information","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43945310126217,"sku":"9798991036702","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0ddabcdf-ae48-463b-bfe1-fef1b43cdd6e.jpg?v=1745909285","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/barbara-t-smith-i-am-abandoned-9798991036702","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}