"Angels At Work"
Ashley Madison is a Canadian online dating service marketed worldwide to married people seeking an affair. In July and
August 2015, an anonymous group called The Impact Team stole and released all of Ashley Madison's internal data revealing that Ashley Madison had created an army of 75,000 female chatbots to draw the 32 million male users into costly conversations. !Mediengruppe Bitnik use Ashley Madison as a case study to raise questions around the current relation-ship between humans and machines, internet intimacy and the use of virtual platforms. For Ashley Madison Angels At Work in Basel , !Mediengruppe Bitnik use the pick-up lines encoded by Ashley Madison into their bots to form a choreography within the exhibition space. HeK becomes the place of embodiment for 5 of the 16 fembots that were active in Basel at the time of the data breach.
"Angels At Work"
Ashley Madison is a Canadian online dating service marketed worldwide to married people seeking an affair. In July and
August 2015, an anonymous group called The Impact Team stole and released all of Ashley Madison's internal data revealing that Ashley Madison had created an army of 75,000 female chatbots to draw the 32 million male users into costly conversations. !Mediengruppe Bitnik use Ashley Madison as a case study to raise questions around the current relation-ship between humans and machines, internet intimacy and the use of virtual platforms. For Ashley Madison Angels At Work in Basel , !Mediengruppe Bitnik use the pick-up lines encoded by Ashley Madison into their bots to form a choreography within the exhibition space. HeK becomes the place of embodiment for 5 of the 16 fembots that were active in Basel at the time of the data breach.