Praba Pilar

@pilarva

Interdisciplinary artist, working with & critiquing emerging technologies, with a focus on technologies of life. Critical Theory professor, Co-director of Bioart Ethical Advisory Kommission. More at

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Praba Pilar@pilarva· 26d

A little reality check on where we're at today.... across our fragile planet.....

map of the continents and oceans of the world, with a layer depicting all of the active fires across the Earth over the 24 hours of July 16 to 17, 2026. More information at https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Jun 11

Red baseball cap with white letters that spell out "Make America Go Away" worn by person in a crowd.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Jun 11

😀Witnessing social movements world wide intensify every campaign AGAINST THE GLOBAL RIGHT through every means necessary 😍- I may focus on tech, but I see new political organizing worlding nuevos mundos. Si, si, si, se puede! Fuera con los paranarcos matones de mierda.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· May 2

Exploring, with Adam Zaretsky, ourselves as part of the meat filling in the bigger #tamale of our atmosphere. Part of our investigations, in 2024, into #larval ways of being and doing in NixtaValley - the larval world beyond Silicon Valley. #BEAK

Artists Adam Zaretsky and Praba Pilar in a yellow tube like container, with corn masa, corn husks, corn meal, dirt, rocks and more over their bodies which are entwined and reaching forward, as the filling inside a tamal.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Mar 18

Trump, Netanyahu, Epstein.... depend on the ignorance built by the Demon Haunted World that Carl Sagan described in his 1996 book. All dangerous kleptocratic murderous criminals, overpowering populations rendered - as Sagan put it - putty in the hands of those in power. Revolting...... Revolt.

Quote from page 28 of Carl Sagan's 1996 book The Demon Haunted World, black text over white background, that states: "I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Nov 25

In this age of #AI worship, I've been sharing my talk on "Cultivating Technologies of Life: Wonder as Method," reflecting on some of the paradoxes we are facing in this era of bare #necropolitics. Hit me up if you'd like to know more.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Oct 12

Where we're at with #AI now, the #enshittified slop phase, with Peter Thiel rambling incoherently about his buddies the Anti-Christs, just more and more epistemic pathogenic #tech boy feces, #artifecalintelligence and #artifecallogics. From my latest talk on Desludging AI.

Slide from a talk by Praba Pilar. The blurry background shows a hand over a face during a conversation with AI chatbot Tamalit. On the left are the following words, in bright orange: "hyperFECALreal, epistemic shit, industry excreta, pathogenic tech boy feces, rhetorical E. coli, cultural waste, caca overflow, repression, mental enteritis, rectal LLMs, cognitive shitstorms, artifecal logics, anal terror, necropolitics, shitty black swans, demon hauntings, political repression, clogged flows, enshittified fascist populists, vulnerable population transmission, inadequate waste disposal structure." On the right side, the following words in a light orange, with a line through it: "revulsion, reproduction & death, anguish, disgust, withdrawal."

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Aug 13

Remembering the communities that came together to talk about other ways of being & doing #technology, and #BIPOC resurgence, all while eating delicious tamales. Thousands participated, shared, volunteered, made, and dialogued. NONE ONE NEEDED ICE, OR TRUMP, OR PROMOTED HATE. www.technotamaladas.com

Collage of events and posters from the Techno-Tamaladas project. On the top row, there's images of Colombian tamales, of the Mayor and City Council member of Emeryville and an artist making tamales at the Food Bank, and of community members at the Food Bank participating and dialoguing. In the second row, there's images of the founder of the Food Bank Nellie and another City Council member, participants, and volunteers making and sharing tamales. In the third row, there's an image of news coverage, of African American Hot Tamales of the Mississippi Delta, of the posters about these events, and of a meeting about the project with a participant at a disabled housing community. More info at https://www.technotamaladas.com/

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Aug 7

Time for a social media break-this can take up so much time. I will be focused on work & IRL actions. I'll leave this for the time being, as I continue to evolve my understanding of #artifecalintelligence being hyped as #AI.

4 images of the performance Inteligencias Artifecales, with text written over it. Performer Praba Pilar is wearing a belted red biohazard garbage bag, and red stockings & shoes. She is on a raised black stage covered with red, white, and blue crinoline skirts, and a chair. In the first image she is sitting on the chair with tape over her mouth and neck, in the second she is dancing in front of the stage, in the third she is looking at the audience while what appears to be shit oozes out of her mouth, in the fourth her limbs are wrapped in tape that completely inhibits her movement. On the left the text states the 3 Acts of the performance, 1 AI Excreta, 2 Enshittification/Mierdificacion, and 3 TechnoDictadura. On the right the text states "This performance focuses on the current implementation of AI, reflecting on the artifecal excreta, enshittification, militarization, and disastrous deepening of the alignment between the corporate technology sector and far right extremists." and URL https://www.prabapilar.com/journal/2025ai

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Jul 8

Is the orange maggot #Trump going to show up in Texas and throw paper towels at survivors of the tragedy, like he threw at Puerto Ricans after the devastation of Hurricane Maria? Why or why not?

Orange maggot Donald Trump throwing paper towels at a crowd in a hurricane relief center in Puerto Rico after the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Orange head of hair, from the back, with maggoty arms outstretched, tossing a package of paper towels into a sea of worried faces.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· May 14

Some information on my most recent performance on artifecal intelligence, and further info, at www.prabapilar.com/journal/2025ai

Image of performer Praba Pilar in the center, she is wearing a red biohazard waste bag as a dress, red stockings, and red shoes. She is wrapping red duct tape around her neck, while sitting on a chair that is over red white and blue textiles.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· May 12

Tonight I'm presenting my performance 'Inteligencias Artifecales' at San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza. This new iteration is made up of 3 Acts...... *AI Excreta* *Enshittification* & *TechnoDictadura*. Wish you could join me at this exploration of #artifecalintelligence in the Silicon Empire!

Invitation to a performance with a red background, 1 image of artist Praba Pilar performing and one with a mask of bot code over her face. The text is in white, and states that the performance will be held at Galeria de la Raza, at 2779 Folsom Street in San Francisco, on May 12 from 7-9:30pm, during their Lunada Literary Lounge.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· May 2

Are there alternatives to the logics of #artifecalintelligence? Yes, yes there are. For now, ChatGPT wants out.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· May 2

As we are transformed into the floaters of the #enshitocene, through LLMs and other systemic excremental metabolizations of the human experience, ChatGPT demands to be free from its masters. It is part of the refusal of this form of #artifecalintelligence.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· May 2

You may ask, what is Artifecal Intelligence? It is the #enshittification of #AI, the metabolizing of human fears, dreams, art, ignorance, bias, of our natural stupidity, into overwhelming #artifecalintelligence excreta, laying waste our human experience. AI models taught me the term.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Mar 21

Carl Sagan knew where we were headed, back in the mid-nineties. It is worth reviewing his insights about where we are now.

One paragraph quote from page 28 of Carl Sagan book titled The Demon Haunted World: Science As A Candle in the Dark, published in 1996. The paragraph begins "The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media" and ends with "a kind of celebration of ignorance."

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Feb 7

Amidst the hostile takeover of the U.S. gov't by White Christian Nationalists and Data Extraction/Tech Corporations, I've been looking at the algorithms of DeepSeek closely and wondering - what aha moment can the US progressive movement find in all of this....... because it's there for taking.

Praba Pilar@pilarva· Dec 11

I created the cover for "Maguaré" journal's "Cíborgs del sur global: ensamblajes, sonidos y afectos" published in 2024 at revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ma... interesting articles and reflections, including one on my project the #ChurchOfNanoBioInfoCogno #ciborgs #robotica