The Pledge

The Pledge
By 2025 Lumen Prize winning Artists mots
Showing at CPH:DOX Festival
Ends 22 March 2026

'The Pledge' is an interactive installation turning encounters with AI bias into a collective digital monument.

The Pledge’, part of the AI & Me work series, is an interactive installation that transforms personal confrontation with AI bias into a collective digital monument. Participants face a camera as an AI analyzes their appearance and generates a personalized statement, a pledge, rooted in the machine’s biases.

Each individual must then decide: speak the statement aloud into a microphone, or walk away. If spoken, accepted individuals are projected in hyper-realistic form onto large screens.

‘The Pledge’ asks a simple question: What are we willing to give up to be seen? And can we consent to a machine’s partial gaze, knowing it flattens us?

This piece will be exhibited in the courtyard of Kunsthal Charlottenborg the whole duration of the festival (March 11-22, 2026) and is accessible to the public.

Artists
mots (Daniela Nedovescu and Octavian Mot)

Produced by
mots with the support of Zauberberg Productions