A rhinestone is the only controller in Moled to Gold

You open a shrine-like door and a mirror looks back. Then comes the one move the piece gives you: stick a rhinestone somewhere on your own face. A camera reads the placement, and a language model trained on the meanings of Chinese mole reading, the centuries-old practice of 痣相, writes you a fortune on the spot. That is the whole approach of Moled to Gold (点痣成金), Jane Jianhan Lu's divination mirror, and it is the best kind of game grammar: a single verb with real stakes. The documentation shows the ritual end to end.

Physiognomy was already a predictive model, a system that claimed to read fate off a face long before anyone said "inference." Lu wires that old model into a new one and then hands you the input. You choose where the mole goes, so every reading is half yours, which the project notes name outright: the visitor is "both the subject and co-author of the prediction." Most AI art asks you to watch a system hallucinate. This one asks you to seed it, and the difference is the difference between a screening and a séance.

The piece anchors Ctrl+Save, a group show presented by Kive Studio and curated by its co-directors Hyoeun Kang and Isabel Lotus, with Yasaman Sheri as curatorial advisor and Lauren Lee McCarthy contributing. The show asks what can and cannot be saved, a question that lands differently when the thing on file is your face. Killscreen has always had a soft spot for fortune machines that make you work for the prophecy, and this is the rare one where you are the deck being read.

Lu has good company. Alice Bucknell, who talked to Killscreen last year about pollination simulators and quantum love stories, shows Ground Truthing, a 17-minute simulation film and game environment that rebuilds ecologically unstable biomes from 3D scans inside a game engine to ask how satellites and GPS shape the way we see the planet. Kordae Jatafa Henry's Earth Mother, Sky Father is an eight-minute music film set in 2030, in a Congo that keeps its rare earth minerals at home and turns mining into ritual, with Storyboard P dancing as an excavation programmer to the sound of Shabazz Palaces. Oother works include Aurora Mititelu's Abel & I and Romi Morrison's To Create Love With Dry Eyes.

Ctrl+Save closes Sunday, Oct. 11. Art/Space 114, 114 W. 4th St. in downtown Los Angeles, is open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.