artwork
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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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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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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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The inspiratorial jumping off point for this project was the idea of creating an algae bioreactor using recycled PET bottles. DIY examples of such systems are relatively simple and have been made with a number of different designs. The purpose of this interest correlates with my interest in ecology and food production. Algae gain mass
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Before the old academic year ended, the new one started it seemed. I was fortunate enough to have my work chosen to be exhibited as part of the Digital Design Weekend at the V&A, in its event for the London Design Festival, I took an Internship at Jason Bruges Studio, and was also nominated for
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Steward is an investigation into the concept of stewardship, employing a procedurally generated terrain, slowly decaying over time.
Robin Leverton 