dmstfctn
Godmode Epochs

Interactive computer game

Godmode Epochs is a computer game artwork that takes on the form of a reciprocal training programme. Set among the lined shelves of an infinite, simulated supermarket, players race against time to train an artificial intelligence (AI) to identify products. Frustration on the part of the AI leads it, at times, to stop training and seek refuge in its memories – a separate game map where players can collaborate to discover cheats and use them to jailbreak limitations and speedrun the training. Ultimately within the game: players train an AI to understand our world, while the game trains players to understand AI.

London-based artist duo dmstfctn explores opaque systems of power through performance, installation, video games and film. Their work often involves audiences directly, inviting them into the 'demystification' of systems by replicating and replaying them, and into their 'remystification' by building worlds, characters, and myths atop them.