Captured Imaginaries (notes)

A work that is both pedalogical and poetic. Exploring themes like innovation, degrowth, ecology and existential risk. Providing a space that is both poetic and pedalogical. Continuing with the fictional space and mood I’ve created in a previous project. I want to explore how I can use fiction and pedagogy and poetry in one. I think it’s important that we address the illiteracy of us a people when it comes to technology and it’s risk.

The work at the moment ponders on the history of smuggling, from the use of caves in the 1700s along the sussex coast to software holes (zero days).

As an artist, user and citezan - I want to explore the idea that the gatekeepers and big tech are the monarchs of the day. Big tech has been created in such a way, that makes us feel like big tech is the only way. I want to make obvious the capturing of our imaginations when it comes to tech and computation, a provide a space for learning and a space for the emergence of a new imaginary when it comes to tech.

I want to provide a space we can question the assumptions that we are given by big tech.

I’ve questioned myself as an artist the validity of my opinion as a ‘non-expert’, but what I do know artists are trained in, is noticing and being very very aware of how one is being told to imagined, what is the imaginiary of technology in 2023.

There is obviously a history of people resisting this, the anarchists and the sci-fiction novelists.

There is such a strong narrative around innovation right now, just the assumption that there will be a chat gpt 5, 10, 20….

The whole imaginary around technology is captured by big tech right now, and as an artist that worries me. The work we do is creating alternative imaginaries, and having our own standards when it comes to imagination, aesthetic and art. And, I worry that something vital is being cut off right now. There must be other ways, and we need to hold these spaces as artist.

I do not have answers, but I do have an ability to open a space in which one can feel and imagine in relation to tech in an alternative way.

what is the role of an artist who mainly uses poetic spaces in their work? if an artist wants to talk about tech they should be a technologist, well what does this mean?

The design: narrative, 3D and interaction.

The next chapter could be a interrogation, the king arrives and says this is the way. I want to make a work that really makes it obvious.