Lady Chatterley’s Tinderbot is an interactive touch screen artwork comprising conversations between an AI Tinderbot (blue text) posing as characters from Lady Chatterley’s Lover and other Tinder users (grey text).

Created before AI permeated every aspect of our lives, Lady Chatterley’s Tinderbot explores love in a post-digital age by bringing together humans and non-humans and pre- and post-digital love machines, namely the literary novel and the Tinder dating app.

The installation features 901 anonymized Tinder conversations of both men and women, an automated AI bot has conversed independently with members of the public using dialogue only from Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

When swiping left and right and speaking to other Tinder uses, the bot followed its own sentiment analysis and facial recognition algorithms. 

The resulting conversations probe how human relationships are mediated through digital technologies.

Progression through the conversations is controlled by a swipe left/right action on a touch screen monitor. 

The narrative through the Tinder conversations is thus controlled by the participant, reflecting users own potential journeys through Tinder.

Lady Chatterley’s Tinderbot is accompanied by a book, presenting an edited data set of around 300 conversations revealing Tinder archetypes. The conversations between the bot and other Tinder users are woven together with selected descriptive excerpts from Lawrence, reflecting similarities and disparities in love, sex, class, gender and family between the 1920s and now.