Self Evaluation

For this project I wanted to apply my personal interests in how technology can influence us and apply it to my work. The particular topics I wanted to cover were based on the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and how computers will eventually surpass humans in terms of intellect and how my may fare from this, […]

Phone Hack

To reutilise the sounds I had collected previously in the project I decided to warp them using the same tools musicians use to autotune their vocals. However I altered the settings to an extreme so that minute alternations in pitch enable the sound to be thoroughly distorted. I then used a program I had written […]

Harun Farocki

HARUN FAROCKI. SERIOUS GAMES from: 06.02.2014 to: 18.01.2015 Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin The Nationalgalerie mourns the death of Harun Farocki (1944-2014), who passed away on 30 July 2014 near Berlin. Harun Farocki’s four-part series ERNSTE SPIELE (SERIOUS GAMES) (2009-2010), recently donated to the NATIONALGALERIE by the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, is being […]

Room 237

Duality, blood, mirrors, the Holocaust and American genocide against the Native Americans are all things hidden somewhere inside Stanley Kubrick’s famous creep show The Shining. And now you can hear just about every single amazing Shining theory and idea in one documentary, Room 237. I think what makes a good piece of artwork is how much information it can convey […]

Collecting Sounds

Whilst processing information about new technologies introduced in warfare today I decided to collate various sounds that could be warped or manipulated into fitting an environment that has relevance to the war-based themes I had been tackling. There is a very wide range with regards to the sounds recorded. For instance I had recorded a […]

Reducing Long-Term Catastrophic Risks from Artificial Intelligence

Reducing Long-Term Catastrophic Risks from Artificial Intelligence Abstract Eliezer Yudkowsky, Anna Salamon Machine Intelligence Research Institute Carl Shulman, Steven Kaas, Tom McCabe MIRI Visiting Fellows Rolf Nelson In 1965, I. J. Good proposed that machines would one day be smart enough to make themselves smarter. Having made themselves smarter, they would spot still further opportunities […]

Obama’s Drone War – The New Yorker Article

THE UNBLINKING STARE The drone war in Pakistan. BY STEVE COLL At the Pearl Continental Hotel, in Peshawar, a concrete tower enveloped by flowering gardens, the management has adopted security precautions that have become common in Pakistan’s upscale hospitality industry: razor wire, vehicle barricades, and police crouching in bunkers, fingering machine guns. In June, on a […]

Ex Machina

THE TURING TEST detects if a machine can truly think like a human. The Bechdel Test detects gender bias in fiction. If you were to mash the two together to create a particularly messy Venn diagram, the overlap shall henceforth be known as the Ex Machina Zone. In writer/director Alex Garland’s thought-provoking new film we meet Ava (Alicia […]

Woods Project

In response to the inspirational works of David Lynch I decided to do some filming in Dulwich Woods to try and create something surrealist. As someone who is not used to creating work in a spontaneous manner I found the experience refreshing. At the time I was collecting sounds for a separate project however I […]

David Lynch

Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. Attending art school in a particularly violent and run-down area of Philadelphia, inspired Eraserhead (1977), a film that he began in the early […]