CULTUS is a multimedia installation that addresses a burgeoning AI religiosity in the tech industry. CULTUS is the second installment of Blas’s Silicon Traces trilogy, a series of moving image installations that contends with the beliefs, fantasies, and histories influential to Silicon Valley’s visions of the future.

Comprised of an 6.1 surround sound design and five channels of video created with computer graphics, motion-capture performance, and AI-generated imagery, CULTUS considers the ways in which artificial intelligence is imbued with god-like powers and marshaled to serve beliefs centered around judgement and transcendence, extraction and immortality, pleasure and punishment, individual freedom and cult devotion.