Contribute to this project at xhairymutantx.whitney.org xhairymutantx began by asking the question: do we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate? One of the original promises of the internet was self-determination of identity online. As the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon put forward; “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”. The promise of a digital existence brought with it the promise of reinvention, of mutable, often multiple, identities and existences. There is a com...

Contribute to this project at xhairymutantx.whitney.org xhairymutantx began by asking the question: do we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate? One of the original promises of the internet was self-determination of identity online. As the famous 1993 New Yorker cartoon put forward; “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”. The promise of a digital existence brought with it the promise of reinvention, of mutable, often multiple, identities and existences. There is a com...