Recent Events

I’ve just come out of a 2 week creative development/residency at The Mill as part of Kinetic Collective

The play is an interrogation of grief, loss, memory and moving forward from pain. Anthony is a brilliant writer and the creative team are all in the room, developing and mixing ideas. It’s a very cool way of working.

Here are some renders of the projection mapped set that I created, out of context, you’ll have to see the play when it’s finished!

I’m currently diving into research on neural networks and reinforcement learning. The basic concept is an AI agent can interact with an environment, with a set goal, and randomly develop patterns of actions that slowly reinforce as it learns to achieve the goal.

My plan is to deploy this in a realtime installation setting, creating multimedia installations that learn from user interactions and adapt their outputs accordingly. I’d also like to combine it with the LORA AI images I outlined in the last blog. Unfortunately I am not mathematically inclined so the learning curve is steep.

Reading List

I finished ‘I am a strange loop’. The core idea is that our identity (I, a strange loop) emerges as an outcome of our internal processes of forming symbols and analogies. These symbols can turn inwards, self referencing, and that process forms a narrative of self. The author also puts forward the idea of a type of distributed consciousness. My internal symbols include ‘low resolution’ copies of other ‘strange loops’. I’m not doing the book justice, go read it!

I’ve also started reading ‘Posthuman Feminism’ by Rosi Braidotti. It’s a critical crash course on the history of Feminism, Posthumanism and the intersection that she names ‘The Posthuman Convergence’. I’m struggling with the dry academic language but the ideas presented are very compelling so far.