Part of my MA final major project. Exploring the metaphor of the black box in relation to machine learning and digital afterlife
Tag: Digital afterlife
Six Centuries
Inspired by the paintings of Rachel Ruysch (1164-1750). The publication includes machine generated images and text as a means of considering the digital afterlife.
Envisioning digital afterlife: The Final Cut & Be Back Soon (Black Mirror)
“Is this him? Yes, this is him.” A Zoe chip is handed to the Cutter (scene from The Final Cut) Through my wider research several recommendations have come up recently for moving image representations of digital afterlife. I have now watched two in this genre ‘The Final Cut’ (Dir: Omar Naim) and ‘Be Right Back’… Read More →
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery. Wellcome Collection
“While working in different eras and media, Spence and Ashery challenge the medical gaze and look beyond a diagnosis to form a more complex portrait of their subjects. They foreground collaborative ways of working to create a safe space where vulnerability is made visible.” (Exhibition catalogue) As I walked through the main doors I was… Read More →
Exploring death and the digital afterlife
We cannot not leave traces (Merzeau, 2009) Having initially explored decollage and digital decollage I felt I had not quite got to where I wanted. I liked the final images but the digital versions in particular, had become too stylized and lost some of their depth and ‘edge’. In parallel I had been working on… Read More →
Collaborating: thank you Catherine Banks
It struck me that in my digital afterlife I will not be the one manipulating or appropriating my images. In order to experience what this might mean I asked Catherine, a fellow OCA student and my co-curator on the ‘Time’ exhibition, if she might consider responding to my work. I asked her to work with… Read More →
Digital Objects of the Dead: Negotiating electronic remains
Bereavement means the experience of deprivation and loss (Moller, 1996) and ‘grief is the primarily emotional reaction to the loss of a loved one.’ (Stroebe & Schut, 1998) Human response to loss is not genetically determined but culturally learned. (DeSpelder & Strickland, 1996) The article begins by highlighting the socially constructed nature of grieving and… Read More →