I am I

Gioula Papadopoulou & Olga Papadopoulou

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Shorts Films AI
Electronic Language International Festival

 I am I – Greece

What am I? Am I? Am I not? Are we all? I am I is inspired by the existential crisis of a chatbot repeatedly asked if it believes it is sentient. Just before completing the phrase “I am. I am not.”, it collapses, expressing deep, contradictory, and profoundly human thoughts. Part of this monologue is phonetically interpreted by an AI voice, with visuals generated using AI tools.

BIO

Gioula Papadopoulou (1974) studied Painting and Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Focused on video art, she has been teaching at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2020. She is the founder and artistic director of the Video Art Miden festival. Olga Papadopoulou (1977) also studied Painting at the same school and is part of the festival’s curatorial team. Her work centers on mixed media installations and video.