La Tecnocapilla: Artificial Intelligence, Religion, and Neocolonialism
Multimodal installation with Arduino, silicone, latex, wood, and stone lithography on Thai kozo paper
2026, 7 ft. x 7 ft. x 7 ft.
La Tecnocapilla (The Technochapel) is a multimodal installation that merges sculpture, print media, and computer technology with Spanish Catholic aesthetics to reveal how the AI industry is built on the postcolonial frameworks of Western society. La Tecnocapilla consists of immersive audio, uncanny lithographs on crudely sutured synthetic skin, and Cura v2.2.4 — a fleshy, automated spiritual guide — turning the space into an amalgamation of bodies, spirits, and machines. Viewers are invited to share confessions with Cura v2.2.4, which are recorded & accumulated over Gregorian chants. As more fragments of viewer’s lives are offered, Cura v2.2.4 thrives, calling into question what (and who) is sacrificed for the advancement of generative AI models.
Commercialized generative AI models need neocolonial violence to prosper: raw materials are extracted through slave labor, land is depleted of finite resources, marginalized communities are displaced, and gen-AI use becomes increasingly imposed onto us as an “inevitable change.” As I cultivate a practice in printmaking & sculpture while engaging with computer technology through audio, digital fabrication, and coding, I inquire: How can we use emerging technologies to better understand ourselves as human beings, and at what point does technology replace human experience rather than supplement it?