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INSIDE THE BLACKBOX (SUPERVISED LEARNING)

Inside The BlackBox (Supervised Learning)is a video work and series of testing apparatus props. The work is the first chapter of an ongoing world-building project exploring algorithms and politics. It imagines political system driven by data within which individuals can train algorithms, their ‘data doubles’ to become politicians, representing them […]

Island RLS33 – 1701 – D

This project was in response to a worldbuilding brief commissioned by production deisgner Alex Mcdowell. Asked to imagine the creation of a fictional island state from the cities of LA and Rio, I responded by looking at the political implications of uniting two of the most polluted cities in […]

NEWTMANDERING

Newtmandering is a project exploring political systems.

The word gerrymander describes the manipulation of geographical boundaries for political gain. The word was created in reaction to the redrawing of election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1812. When mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble the shape […]

TAMAGOTCHI

Human beings rarely change their behaviour courtesy of moral obligations and in the context of large and abstract concepts like climate change, research has found that there is a distancing of our responsibilities because of the lack of an emotional attachment to the subject. Tamagotchi? is a fiction based on an accountability […]