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Classic pitch: The world is dying, lets spread the word of how amazing nature is to raise awareness and save it.New twist: You never get to see the natural world.The future: Nature will forever be a fiction, and now it will be mediated to you through AI. Refik Anadol Studio has created one of the
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“You’re overthinking it”. That’s what a woman said to me when I sat playing White Chess Set (1966) at Yoko Ono’s Tate Modern retrospective Music of the Mind. It’s a lot to unpack. Can you overthink conceptual art? I’m inclined to think yes. Can you over-question it? I’m not so sure. The teeth of this
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Time Machine at Hayward Gallery This bit of writing was an assignment on the Critical AI module that I audited in Autumn 2023. I thought there were a number of parallels in the labour relations between the work undertaking to make “AI” happen, and that of some of the images and subjects in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s
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In summer 2023 Ieva (middle left pictured) put out a call for people to join her in a collective application for a show at Hypha Studios in Mayfair. Hypha are an organisation that takes stewardship of meanwhile spaces and offers them out as studios and exhibition spaces to artists, curators and other such creatives. Unfortunately
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I probably owed this blog the process of my final piece “In_Organsim: Octopus” when it was completed and my time as a student at Goldsmiths came to an end. Alas, I found myself swept up in the post-studying insecurity of looking for a job, a new home, and a momentous wave to carry me forward.
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Mushi (Jap.) Computer glitch. Reishi (Jap.) Mushroom of Immortality. Mushi_Reishi is an experiment in embodied intelligence and emergent behaviour, manifesting as organic-like structure. I wanted to imagine how a fungus would grow within an area from a single point without prior knowledge of its surroundings. This project isn’t at its final stage and the resin
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In_Organisms is an immersive and visually captivating animated short film, created in Unreal Engine, set within the intricate world of a gothic laboratory, where two artificial intelligences engage in a profound conversation about fried chicken. Powered by algae and fungi, these enigmatic beings embody distinct forms that shape their cognitive abilities. Algae, constricted to sensing,
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I took my early explorations in Stable Diffusion and developed a way to make more interesting images with them, and develop an artistic process that wasn’t the kitsch boring photoreal woman in place images that plague the internet since the growth of these generative models exploded this past year. My subject was the octopus, and
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Abstract This paper investigates what it means for something to be a city by viewing the city as a complex system. Building a framework of cybernetic organicity drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Yuk Hui, and Benjamin Bratton, this paper looks at the ways in which an organ upholds its boundaries through constant
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From the discussion in class, a point Malu raised is the binary between emittor and sensor. There is always from the point of view of the subject a binary between the subject itself and an object receiver or emittor of data. Thinking about this relationship, there are singulars that are produced from the multiplicities of
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