Me Time

Initiated by Neïl Beloufa, EBB invites artists, authors, and filmmakers to experiment with the technologies that shape our digital lives in today’s attention economy.

Along a digital and physical infrastructure network in the Parc des Ateliers and The Tower, unfolding storylines transform the visit to LUMA Arles into a self-directed narrative journey. Me Time leads to an interactive and immersive projection room manifesting the viewer’s imagination in distorted and unpredictable ways.

As part of a long-term research interest on the use of innovation in the service of artists’ visions, Me Time showcases technologies such as generative AI, data privacy, recommendation algorithms, and information personalization, making them accessible and actionable. Taking the form of a gamified experience, this project provides a space for ongoing experimental cultural production and a generative, artist-led use of technologies.

The inaugural artist participating in Me Time is Jill Mulleady. The next participating artists will soon be announced

Fear of Losing You, in collaboration with Jill Mulleady.

For Me Time, with Fear of Losing You, Jill Mulleady (Uruguay, 1980) conjures up a childhood memory that appeared in a dream, and attempts to retranscribe it through the generation of images. A room in the estuary of the Río de la Plata, then a lighthouse on a beach in the South Atlantic become the shifting backdrops for a fable told by a haunting voice, in which the protagonists are subjected to the acceleration of time. Drawing a parallel between the image-making capacity of one's own memory and that of an artificial intelligence, Mulleady questions the evocative value of the dream image when it is generated by the machine.