The evening of the September 20th will feature a performance of my short film FIVE ECHOES, featuring a live score of dissected and recomposed AI assistant voices. Details here: luga.lu/en/experienc...

This weekend my next work opens in Luxembourg: PLACE ECHOES, five sound sculptures made from 50 discarded smart speakers and half a tonne of soil. Each sculpture features voices from the speakers reading short eco-socio-technical fiction about near futures with and without this consumer trash.

It's a desktop device and voice interface that listens to all patient & GP conversations, sends the info to a Palantir data center, and then returns a 'smart, AI-powered' diagnosis, without the opinion of the GP, whose only role now is to inspect the patient and report their findings to the system.

It's a desktop device and voice interface that listens to all patient & GP conversations, sends the info to a Palantir data center, and then returns a 'smart, AI-powered' diagnosis, without the opinion of the GP, whose only role now is to inspect the patient and report their findings to the system.

I specifically wanted to expose the connections between spurious AI use and academic institutions who want to reduce their carbon footprint, and the frequent incompatibility of this. Which included critiquing AI art that pretends to care about Nature.

In the studio today, developing a new series of works memorialising the de-valued and discarded artifacts of extractive capitalism.

My recent talk 'DEMAND NO AUTOMATION', about the trends in AI art and design that reinforce the worst narratives of AI techno-capitalism and how we can make art that rejects these poisonous myths, can be watched in full here:

www.youtube.com/live/NHLXmEY...

Each story is told by a different AI voice assistant, and soundtracked by a score composed from the voices themselves, which have been deconstructed and recomposed into new forms that highlight the dis-human nature of the synthetic voice.