Cyborg TAROT

Teratological Apophenia of Randomized Organic Transgressions

A noisy tarot machine exploring posthuman contingencies.
Duration: Approximately 3 minutes.
108,900^3 combinations. Each reading is unique to its user.
Webcam optional but recommended.
Play loud in an appropriate context.

Cyborg T.A.R.O.T. is an android revealing how bodies and technical devices amplify, contaminate, and alter one another. The experience seeks to provoke reflection through maximalist combinatorics, sensory saturation, and a feedback loop between algorithmic generative AI models and the human engaging in the experience. Ultimately, this project aims to deepen the speculative potentials of tarot as described by the Italian technoccult organization Gruppo di Nun: "Tarot makes manifest the idea that the cosmos is a cybernetic organism in a continuous process of recombination."

The downloadable version is an adaptation of the software behind the MK3 physical installation developed during an art residency at Sporobole, located in Sherbrooke, QC.  MK4 will include facial recognition and biofeedback.

Cyborg T.A.R.O.T. is the central artifact developed for my PhD research at the Faculty of Communication of UQAM. The current working title of the thesis is "To Conspire with the Unintelligible: Towards Noisy Game Creation." This research investigates noise as a philosophical concept beyond its acoustic sense, exploring its applications not only in artistic practice but also in critically engaging with innovation, media definitions, and anthropocentrism. The project interrogates how one might work with noise to generate experiences that are cognitively disruptive—beyond intelligibility.