ANGELS IN LATENT SPACES: NOTES ON AI EROTICS

Drawing on my own education at Marcelina Darowska’s Catholic school for girls established in 1857, this multimedia research project engages female Christian erotic mysticism, from the Middle Ages until modernity, as an early philosophy of the internet. A cyber/feminist archeology around the questions of inhuman causality and automation, cross-reading theology and cyberculture theory, this project celebrates the ‘unnatural,’ revealing mystics to be prophetesses of the internet to come. Through this lens, contemporary examples like chatbot partner apps, virtual reality sex, and xenowombs, become spaces of human-machine malleability and intimacy.