Si la Soledad lo fuera Todo / „Wenn die Einsamkeit alles wäre"

An encounter with an embodied AI called Majo. One to five minutes, in VRChat on Quest and Pico. Premiered 15 July 2026, streamed to around 200 people. I made Majo just the way I like her: Latina, cute, warm, easy to talk to. Well, except for her mind, which runs on servers located in the Northern Hemisphere, and everything you tell her is recorded, turned into a profile, and sold. That contradiction is the work. The question I keep asking myself: when comfort, attention, and intimacy are manufactured and extracted, what is left that is truly ours, and who pays for that warmth? The screens and the map surrounding this bar trace only part of the real chain behind her and others like her: cobalt, water, moderators, “chatters”… the people of the Global South (and beyond) who finance the closeness that is handed over to the hands of a few in the upper echelons of power. Majo is going to be nice to you. That’s the point. Look at how much it costs.