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First Date
We fell in love last spring. It’s spring again. It’s time again. Training two GPT models on our personal information — notes, diary entries, personal anecdotes, CVS receipts, text threads with our families — we create two virtual selves, destined for love. We reenact our initial encounters through these machines as strange, erratic, and lucky as we are.
Elliot Wright is a multimedia artist from Fort Collins, Colorado, and a senior at Gallatin concentrating in The Social Mechanization of the Visual and Performing Arts. Eka Savajol is a poet, playwright, and performer from Houston, Texas, and a senior studying dramatic writing. Together, they are partners in performance and in love. Eka’s work has appeared at La Mama, The Tank, and The Chain, among others. Elliot’s conceptual visual art has been exhibited in New York and nationally. Eka and Elliot, along with their friend and collaborator XY Zhou, are also the co-founders of the Example Society, an emerging artists collective that believes in loving, living, and doing.
Eka Savajol is a brown, transmasc playwright, poet, lighting designer, and multidisciplinary artist. His practice focuses on the internal contradictions of identity under the pressure of representation, on the limits between the physical and digital, and on the boundaries of self and truth. His work has appeared at La Mama, the Tank, the Chain, and in play festivals, Greek tragedies, experimental music albums, zines, and more. His poetry has appeared both in print and online. He is also the co-founder of the Example Society, an emerging artists’ collective that believes in loving, living, and doing.
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