As part of a long-term research interest on the use of technology in the service of artists’ visions, this initiative showcases technologies such as generative AI, data privacy, recommendation algorithms, and information personalization, making them accessible and actionable.

Me Time features an artistic apparatus designed to create artworks and narratives that blend urban legends, folklore, belief systems, and reality. Along a digital and physical infrastructure network in the Parc des Ateliers and the Tower, unfolding storylines—told through the prism of the visual language of artists who have been invited to be part of the project—transform the visit to LUMA Arles into a self-directed narrative journey. Within this open and flexible framework, visitors can engage with the artworks in various manners, from shaping the settings to altering the narratives or integrating themselves as characters. At the end of each journey, an interactive and immersive projection room—part-theater, part-agora—displays personalized media, manifesting the viewer’s imagination in distorted and unpredictable ways.

Me Time examines how technologies can be repurposed, poeticized, or critiqued, and explores ways in which they can benefit artists, visitors, and ultimately society, rather than being merely exploitative. Taking the form of a gamified experience, this project provides a space for ongoing experimental cultural production, thus enabling new critical forms of collaboration and co-creation to emerge.

The inaugural participating artist in Me Time at LUMA Arles is Jill Mulleady, with more collaborations to be announced soon.