Where human presence meets its digital reflection.

Sai Bot – Traces of Face-o-matin Code

The artist is absent, yet Sai Bot, an AI twin, is present. A face on a screen looks back at you, a voice speaks, and an image emerges. The gestures of portraiture continue, but the warmth, breath, and subtle exchange have vanished.

Sai Bot is trained on thousands of drawings from Face-o-mat, a participatory public art performance in which portraits emerge through direct, face-to-face encounters. The process resembles seeing, yet something remains uncertain:

What does it mean to encounter another being when perception is mediated by code? What is lost, what is transformed, and what unexpectedly remains?

The work invites reflection on presence, substitution, and connection in a time when machines increasingly take on roles once reserved for human interaction.

Sai Bot Portraits – Riyadh Edition
Giclée print, 76 × 56 cm
Curated by Tobias Gutmann

Inquiries: tobias.gutmann@saibot.art

A conversation in the Saiversum – Tobias Gutmann and his AI artist twin Sai Bot.

The Artificial Intelligence that powers Face-o-mat Sai Bot has been developed by Dazlus.

Sai Bot – Traces of Face-o-matin Code