Nick Doyle: Collective Hallucinations brings together large-scale denim collages and an immersive AI-powered psychic parlor installation to examine the mythology of the American West and its digital successor. Denim — evoking Americana, capitalism, and masculinity — is tailored into symbols of the West: aviators, cacti, car keys, mountainscapes locked behind chain-link fences and boarded with brick. At the center, an AI avatar named Ava dispenses sassy oracular wisdom while mining visitors for data, revealing that artificial intelligence and western myth are selling the same thing through the same dubious strategy — telling us what we want to hear.
