“Dates” are a series of four characters generated by neural network containing embedded metadata with encoded personalities. Each date is trained using machine learning to have a different character and the owner of the artwork will unlock a bespoke link to a Discord server containing the individual bot. The faces of each date are produced by generative GAN networks and animated using open source AR and their names are drawn from the cultural sources upon which they are trained. Each date is only accessible to the owner of the artwork.

The work explores the space between open source code and biological data and forsees a near-future when the boundaries between the two are completely erased within a proprietary metaverse, where our characters will be supplemented and augmented by code and the perception of our identity will be malleable by ourselves, corporations, and hackers. The work speaks in the vernacular of the sex work economy and is for sale within the growing crypto market, a decentralised world of collectibles where ownership of bodies and sexuality can be tokenized, traded, and fractionalised.