Paraspaces
[2021 - 2022]
Residency with Arebyte Gallery supported by Goldsmiths University
The residency was accompanied with a week of streamed public programming which commenced with a summoning ceremony and in which the artist held a public reading and discussion of Laboria Cuboniks' "Xenofeminist Manifesto", a workshop in lightweight and affordable photogrammetry creation/application, and the establishment of the "Democratising the Tools of Digital Production" document and project.
Quote from the Arebyte website:
"Their constantly evolving description of these ‘Paraspaces’ has been made through cooperation with a machine-learning model. Residency members feed the GPT-2 algorithm prose in which they write about ideas around Paraspaces, then in response, the algorithm generates text and completes their sentences. Borrowing from cut-up techniques used in literacy and music composition, these statements act as a living, responsive archive, always in a state of flux - reflecting the developing nature of the residency model itself. The current version reads as follows: