Hydrosexual Call, 2024
Justyna Górowska in conversation with her AI alter ego @wetmewild
film, 9′54″, mp4, 2560 × 1440 px, 60 fps
directing, animation, and editing: Justyna Gorowska @wetmewild
sound: Agata Polak @polak_
tools: Unreal Engine, Metahuman, CONVAI
3D assets 3D: Fab Marketplace
Hydrosexual Call is an artistic exploration of Justyna Górowska’s dialogue with her digital alter ego, WetMeWild – Slavic water nymph embodiment. The animation combines art with technology, using advanced tools (Unreal Engine, Metahuman, AI) with intent to narrate water crisis-related issues in the context of progressing Artificial Intelligence development. Discovering the digital underwater world filled with natural and cultural objects is expanded to include an invitation to join the hydrosexual movement in art, which explores alternative approaches to our endangered aquatic incarnations in the face of dystopian reality infiltration.
Justyna Górowska (she/it) – hydrofeminist and performer collaborating with interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of art, technology and social activism. Adopted the Wet-MeWild pseudonym in 2017, focusing on water-related environmental challenges while using AR and VR technologies. Co-operates with assorted art collectives, such as Nerdka (Nerdess); is part of the cyber_nymphs duo (with Ewelina Jarosz); the duo published their Hydrosexual Manifesto in 2023. Curator of the (Blue Humanities Archive) project – an online archive combining art with water-related ecological education. Showed her works in Berlin, Jakarta, Warsaw and New York. Awarded a doctoral degree in 2020 at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań. Lives in Cracow, teaching at the Faculty of Intermedia of the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies of the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
If you want to learn more about the hydrosexual movement, visit: https://hydrosexmanifesto.cargo.site/
photo: Adam Gut
