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In Part 2 of Gestation 004, the conversation turns toward the question of character: what makes something feel like a character, and what happens when that character is partly constructed through language, voice, memory, and artificial intelligence?

GH Hovagimyan, Adrianne Wortzel, and Remo Campopiano continue their discussion of identity, authorship, performance, and the increasingly unstable boundary between a person, a representation, and a synthetic double. The episode considers how a character can emerge through repetition, interaction, remembered traits, and the expectations of an audience.

The discussion also connects to the  ...