Priyageetha Dia

Built around a synthetic voice delivering a sermon assembled through a large language model's text-prediction process, litany for a failing machine is a sound installation that examines the convergence of sonic governance, voice-cloning ethics, and end-times rhetoric. It asks how automated systems reproduce the emotional architecture of authority and moral certainty without comprehension or intent.

Responding to Peter Thiel's 2025 private lectures on eschatology and technological acceleration, the work considers how prophetic speech and automation converge within a contemporary colonial matrix of power — the interlocking control of knowledge, authority, and language in the datasets and predictive logics from which machine speech is assembled. The work turns to the conditions of listening, in attending to how artificial intelligence inherits and amplifies older regimes of epistemic domination, and how statistical prediction acquires the sonic register of belief.