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‘People just want to be robotic’ is a collaboration with AI text generation from InferKit and voice generation from Kukarella. The work draws on diverse materials from; my dreams, video diary, Jungian studies, (Prof. Natolis lecture ‘Blake and Jung’ in particular), huachuma and gong meditation. I have included inserts from my painting series inspired by the mathematical variations of the diamond theory (Prof. Cullinane).

In ‘People just want to be robotic’ I wanted to explore the human gaze, the urge to stay with an unfolding moment, an experience I found much intensified by the plant medicine Huachuma. I also wanted to experiment with giving the AI my textual notes and dreams and allowing it to generate its own piece from that departure point, subsequently deleting myself from the final output. With the AI voices, I use familiar call centre ‘your call is important to us’ voices and insert deeper layers of meaning into their mundanity.

Overall, I think this work speaks to what it is to be human in the algorithmically connected/disconnected world of ours. For me, the piece contemplates the present and future in which we do/shall find ourselves; whether we are manipulated into becoming part of ‘the machine’ or whether AI technologies will become more human and allow us in turn, to adapt in new ways. A further question I have is the thread of whether we have free will, how we make our choices, what our ‘programming’ is, and how this effects our choices. Even in a very simple geometric system such as the Diamond Theory (which inspires my painting practice), there are an astounding number of choices/combinatorics involved. We may as well consider the world an unlimited ocean. Yet, we know our perceptions fall short of incorporating this multiplicity. As a youngster, I sort out science fiction and speculative visions of the future as a lever to propel me out of my despair, and it is interesting here to reclaim this hopefulness and attempt to temper it with the oversight of a wiser man and the curiosity of an artist.

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