CantorIA
2025
CantorIA is a musical animation that proposes a dialogue between humans and artificial intelligence. The song draws inspiration from Portuguese fado and medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas. The expression “Ai de mim” (“Alas for me”), often used in these cantigas to convey the lyrical self’s suffering, unfolds here into a wordplay between the lament “Ai” and the English acronym AI (Artificial Intelligence). From the human perspective, the dialogue enumerates some of the afflictions experienced in the presence of AI, which has already become an irreversible path in the course of history. However, the lament adopts a new tone throughout the song, evoking mockery, just like the medieval satirical songs that parodied “cantigas de amigo” or “cantigas de amor.”
AI Context
CantorIA is a musical animation that proposes a dialogue between a human and artificial intelligence. The song is inspired by Portuguese fado and medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas, in which the human character enumerates his misfortunes in the presence of Artificial Intelligence. The production process of the work also involves various generative AIs for text, image, sound, and video.
Soraya Braz
Brazil
Bio
Soraya Braz is a Brazilian digital artist, curator, and researcher in Arts and Digital Technologies. She holds a degree in Multimedia and Intermedia from the University of São Paulo and a Master’s in Visual Arts from the Institute of Arts at Unesp. Her artistic productions and research encompass Digital Art, Visual Poetry, Computer Graphics and Metaverses, Digital Fabrication, and Mobile Art.