Janet, Joan, Jackson, Joyce and the Robots is a video installation exploring the authenticity of styles throughout the history of imagery, as well as the processes of style appropriation and reinterpretation. But what is a style? What does it mean to be original, and how can artists exist in an era of imitation and generative AI tracking? 

«What defines the identity of forms? 
Where do they come from?
They are real. 
They live.
They breathe. 
They know movement.
They communicate with each other. 
They flow into one another.
I seek forms that elude the robots and belong to no one.»

Excerpt from Janet, Joan, Jackson, Joyce and the Robots.

Credits

• Direction Gwenola Wagon
• Production Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains
• Production Coordinator Pauline Thyss
• Musical composition Sig Valax
• Images Gwenola Wagon
• Texts Pierre Cassou-Noguès
• Editing Gwenola Wagon with Cécile Bicler
• Stage Manager Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve
• Post production Le Fresnoy Studio national des arts contemporains
• CPER CornelIA (2021-2027) Co-construction responsable et durable d’une Intelligence Artificielle
• With Léonie Pons