It didn’t rain that day

Margarete Jahrmann & Forschungsgruppe EGC-ROBOPSY

Betonhalle

AI role-playing game against fascism by the EGC-ROBOPSY research group (Margarete Jahrmann, Stefan Glasauer, Thomas Brandstetter, Alex Hackl, Stefan Maier) 

This live, installation-based “Investigation Game” takes the Turing Test as a simulacrum of human communication and explores how our daily role-playing with large language models rewrites the past. As time travellers through “The Shit-Stained Time” with AI: the focus is on a controversial political event. Through collective prompting on site, a site-specific game emerges — starting with the Vienna Circle in 1936, then haunting Café Central, and bringing us to the here and now — caught between platform capitalism and the rising techno-fascism that distorts our democratic present.