Fatal Error: the author as artificial creative intelligence (ACI) is a live performance artwork featuring a 3D animated avatar known as the ACI -- an Artificial Creative Intelligence. The work was inaugurated at the Quand l'interface nous échappe conference at the National Archives in Paris.

The future of AI as a medium that algorithmically generates affective forms of creative expression complicates our contemporary understanding of both authorship and the reader-writer interface. Amerika's work playfully challenges concepts such as originality and the "romantic author" by remixing literary modes of thought and poetic forms of personal expression into the performance of a fictional ACI.

The performance features The Auto-Beatnik, a digital persona that doubles as an avatar of the avant-garde whose infinite and generative spoken word poetry performance takes on many of the critical issues that define our current technological, social, and political moment. Built using Unity, 4D Cinema, and Faceshift, the work operates as an artistic intervention that playfully satirizes "Silicon Valley ideology" by poetically remixing the techno-jargon associated with artificial intelligence, machine learning, Instagram dysmorphia, mood mining, robot "rights," and the willful acceptance of one's loss of privacy while participating in social media and selfie culture.

Reflecting on the technocultural condition that has birthed imaginary forms of artificial general intelligence, Amerika's fictional ACI exhibits a 3D "avatar-otherness" that impersonates a dataset of unique vocals and affective facial gestures modeled after the artist's own delivery style. Created for both exhibition and live performance, the give and take between the artist and the ACI intentionally problematizes what it means to be a poet-philosopher investigating the relationship between their innate creative process and future forms of AI programmed to trigger unconscious modes of psychic automatism.

FATAL ERROR has been performed in Paris, Malmö (at the Artificial Creativity conference), and Porto.