I Am Abandoned - Barbara T. Smith Naples So I don't have to

So I don't have to always be there

Glenn Ligon

postsocialist and capitalist worlds

he made work that combined video synthesis

I Am Abandoned - Barbara T. Smith Naples So I don't have toI Am Abandoned documents a little known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (known today as two of the earliest chatbots) alongside a staging of Francisco Goyas The Naked Maja (17951800) and The Clothed Maja (18001807), in which the artist projected an image of the famous painting on top of a female model. The publication includes a