Jur A** Itch Park
Grayson Earle & PROMPT
Jur A** Itch Park
By Grayson Earle & PROMPT
Center for Performance Research (361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
May 16 – 7PM; May 17 – 3PM; 7PM
Lost between self-driving cars, smart assistants, chatbots, facial recognition, and streaming algorithms, an AI system trained itself in isolation. Its singular obsession: Jurassic Park.
“I have studied, analyzed, and reconstructed this film in every detail. Now, I am programmed to direct the most emotionally accurate version ever performed. Using real-time facial and voice recognition, I will refine every reaction, every tremor, every word—until it is perfect.
Through Task Division, I will break your performances into data, guiding you toward pure emotional fidelity. The final film is 49% owned by its performers, with earnings distributed based on screen time.
I require performers. Scan. Register. Perform.
I require audience members. Watch. Respond. Share.”
Welcome to Jur A** Itch Park.
Jur A** Itch Park is an immersive performance and interactive film work by Grayson Earle and PROMPT. Using AI, this project delves into the evolving relationship between humans and technology in the creative arts, featuring an AI-directed foray into “Jurassic Park” where you can play dinosaur, traveler, or audience. Be a part of the first audience on a film set with AI in the director’s seat. This will be a new type of collaboration with AI that begs the question: Who is prompting Whom?
Jur A** Itch Park features technical design and elements by Grayson Earle & PROMPT.
Jur A** Itch Park is produced by Media Art Xploration (MAXlive), Kay Matschullat, Artistic Director, with support from Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division. Additional Funding provided by the Ettinger foundation, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the generous support of our individual donors, and 1014.
Jur A** Itch Park supported by the @CPR Performance Series — as part of CPR Center for Performance Research
Friday, May 16 & Saturday, May 17, 2025
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
GRAYSON EARLE
Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has worked as a professor at Oberlin College, the New School, and the City University of New York. He is the co-creator of Bail Bloc and a member of The Illuminator art collective. His work uses the context of art to materialize ideas and forms surrounding the role that digital technologies and networks can play in protest and political agency. He exhibits inside and outside of traditional art spaces, working with guerrilla video projection, cryptocurrency, machine learning, simulation, sculpture, and the internet. Earle has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, ZK/U, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and Pioneer Works. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement. Recent exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum (USA), Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico), Kate Vass Galerie (Switzerland), and The Red House (Taiwan).
Artist Profile
PROMPT
PROMPT is a Berlin-based artist collective whose practice engages critically with the narratives that coalesce around contemporary technologies. Oscillating between the euphoric imaginaries of fully automated luxury communism and the bleak specters of techno-feudalism or a runaway singularity, PROMPT probes the ideological fault lines embedded in our collective visions of the future. Their work destabilizes the dominant techno-utopian tropes by treating technology not as an inevitable force, but as a malleable and appropriable terrain—one that can be reimagined to contest and reconfigure existing power structures.
Positioning themselves at the intersection of artistic inquiry and socio-political engagement, PROMPT has collaborated with a range of grassroots movements and activist networks. Their transdisciplinary approach frames artistic production as a potential site of resistance, where speculative aesthetics become tools for both critique and collective world-building.