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Research Presentation at Raven Row Gallery for the Contemporary Art Research Group.

Interview Walkthrough of surfacecollider space for New Art City Festival 2023

I chatted about the New Art City surfacecollider space with the brilliant Sammie Veeler. The work was a part of New Art City Festival 2023.

Python Glossolalia

I’ve been using Python to generate randomly linked syllables to get the computer to speak in tongues. The Python code also selects graphemes that produce click sounds, trills, fricatives, sighs, moans, and groans when spoken out by a computer. The idea is to produce some kind of computer synthesised glossolalia.

Trying to bring life to computer generated text.

Below is a sample…

Btw the TTS is a clone of my voice with modulation on it so it ends up sounding nothing like me. The actual clone is a posh me with a plummy accent.

WORM_02

WORM_01

Re-Living the Rendered Image through AI.

I’ve been putting some of my rendered images through Stable Diffusion – an open source AI image generating platform. This is an example from a series of images made by asking the AI to reimagine the renders as 4 bluebottle flies sitting on a rock.

surfacecollider New Art City space for Six Minutes Past Nine

The surfacecollider space that I was invited to build as part of an online residency with the curatorial platform Six Minutes Past Nine is now live and can be accessed here:

Elsewhere Node (Notes on Antidepressants) @ HOAX

A page from the surfacecollider (Code becomes Image) project has been selected by HOAX Publication, and is live here now.

Eleswhere Node (Notes on Antidepressants) is a web based artwork combining code generated imagery, text and sound to explore how the shiny-hyper-glossy objects of digital images, which can often feel cold and distant when we look at them, might produce new tacit forms of experience when they collide with personal narratives and tales from the other side of the screen. The soundtrack to the work is a voice recording of recent writing exploring and describing the world as I see it – my personal day to day experiences. The tone and content of the text mirrors and describes my subjectivity as it is affected by antidepressants.