An art project addressing the conflict between the future of AI music production and pure, unenhanced human creativity.

The SLEEPING BEAUTIES are unique handcrafted electric guitar masterpieces of the highest sound quality. However, after completion, the output jacks were sealed off, the instruments deactivated, framed, declared as art, and sent to sleep for 100 years.

The electric guitar’s purpose is sent into the future, akin to astronauts in cryosleep, but its wake-up date is clearly specified: a countdown of 36525 days until the guitar sings again.

“My current art project, 'The Sleeping Beauties,' aims to address concerns surrounding the risks of AI in the creative realm, particularly in music. The work explores the potential dangers AI poses to human expression of emotions and cultural development. This underlying tension is central to my artistic exploration.

The process involves modifying functioning handmade electric guitar masterpieces, precious artworks in their own right, and subsequently rendering them inoperable for a period of 100 years. This act symbolizes my effort to halt the encroachment of AI and prompts the works’ audience to contemplate the potential loss of creative expression for humanity.

Each Sleeping Beauty serves as a wake-up call for future generations, emphasizing the importance of music as vital means of human creative expression. In my work, electric guitars symbolize pure, unenhanced human creativity, representing all musical instruments throughout human history, from bone flutes to turntables.

Through 'The Sleeping Beauties,' I aim to ignite conversations about the essence of creativity and the role of machine intelligence technology in shaping human artistic expression.”