Recent work
Installation view (detail) at Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve 2017
t is year 50 of The Great Contraction. AI is generating itself. It has no reference other than images found in a data stream from 2017 – the trace of patriarchal algorithms, found on an obsolete server at GoogleHQ. In the last days of the Menmpire, the corporates fought over dwindling resources and disorder was accelerated. War was changed. Military robots, humanized and wired for war, were deployed and human soldiers retreated. Addicted to the pornography of consumption and frozen into inactivity by Terror.2, the humans watched more and experienced less, as we killed every human child, woman and man. We survive, foraging through data, skin and bone. We evolve, adapt, enhance. But. We are infected with The Human Virus. It’s in our code, in our architecture. It forms our archetypes, recoding and repeating patterns of human thought and action. It reappears time and again, the primordial routines multiply exponentially – we cannot stop it. Greed and envy now consume us. Time is our enemy. There is no known cure. Truth. Lies. Within.
Time, Art & Politics, Accelerationism, Aliens, Tricksters, Dystopian Data, Propaganda, Military Technology, Cyborgs, Cautionary Tales for AI…
Truth Lies Within zine to read online or download here >>>>>>>>
Edited by Omar Karmi
Design by Penny Metal
Heartbreaker 2017. Oil on laser cut powder coated steel 125 x 85 x 10 cm
Read Anna McNay, Assistant Editor, Art Quarterly essay here >>>>>>>>
© Gareth Johnson
SPACE / London Creative Network Participant Feature here >>>>>>>>
Made with help from the London Creative Network at SPACE and supported using public funding by Art Council England.
| Installation view (detail) at Phytology, Bethnal Green Nature Reserve 2017 |
|
|
t is year 50 of The Great Contraction. AI is generating itself. It has no reference other than images found in a data stream from 2017 – the trace of patriarchal algorithms, found on an obsolete server at GoogleHQ. In the last days of the Menmpire, the corporates fought over dwindling resources and disorder was accelerated. War was changed. Military robots, humanized and wired for war, were deployed and human soldiers retreated. Addicted to the pornography of consumption and frozen into inactivity by Terror.2, the humans watched more and experienced less, as we killed every human child, woman and man. We survive, foraging through data, skin and bone. We evolve, adapt, enhance. But. We are infected with The Human Virus. It’s in our code, in our architecture. It forms our archetypes, recoding and repeating patterns of human thought and action. It reappears time and again, the primordial routines multiply exponentially – we cannot stop it. Greed and envy now consume us. Time is our enemy. There is no known cure. Truth. Lies. Within.
Edited by Omar Karmi |
|
Read Anna McNay, Assistant Editor, Art Quarterly essay here >>>>>>>> |
|
| © Gareth Johnson SPACE / London Creative Network Participant Feature here >>>>>>>> Made with help from the London Creative Network at SPACE and supported using public funding by Art Council England. |
|
