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Non-User-Friendly, a performance by Sondi

Non-User-Friendly (2026) is a speculative audiovisual performance exploring the ecological, political, and cultural realities of artificial intelligence. Through a shifting dialogue between human and machine, it confronts the ghosts inherited in our technologies: the hidden infrastructures, extractive logics, and encoded biases beneath the surface of so-called “intelligence.” Combining live narration, sound, video, and interactive elements, the piece troubles the aesthetics of neutrality and challenges the audience to reconsider their complicity in technological systems they cannot see but continuously feed. Set within a speculative interface, the work investigates the violence of systems that ask us to “prove” our humanity. Drawing from Sylvia Wynter’s formulation of “the human as praxis” and inspired by the invasive absurdity of CAPTCHA logic, this performance reclaims the moment of verification as a site of rupture: