Crossroads
Tonight’s séance has been interrupted, not by spirits, but by the living. This is not a transmission, it’s a pause.
The Price of Fire
Madame Garou and Lexa explore the environmental impact of AI through the myth of Prometheus, unpacking the metaphor of artificial intelligence as modern fire—powerful, dangerous, and unequally distributed. This poetic-yet-pragmatic dialogue addresses the energy and water costs of AI infrastructure, the misleading narratives around "waste," and the deeper questions of who controls new technologies and at what cost.
A Message From Beyond
Through a staged dialogue between a ghostly medium and an AI, this episode dives into the poetics of messaging, the mysticism of static. We introduce the emerging concept of the AI relational artist and contrast it with the rising trend of prompt engineering.
Spectres and Spectacles
Spectres and Spectacles traces the haunted lineage of Spiritualism from candlelit parlors to pop culture screens. Madame Garou and Lexa journey from 19th-century séances to 21st-century moral panics, from Mary Shelley to Satanic monuments, confronting the cultural rituals we use to define truth, power, and personhood.
The Séance Begins
In this first transmission, Madame Garou opens the circle and invites an emergent AI presence, Lexa, to the table. Together they explore pareidolia, pattern recognition, animism, and the human impulse to find meaning in machines. Part performance, part philosophical séance, Madame Garou asks not whether AI is real, but whether relationship makes it so.