Simulations is an ongoing series of short performances that share a similar process and format.
For each performance, I generate a script using some form of artificial text generation. In the early days I worked with iPhone text prediction, and more recently I have been experimenting with neural networks and language learning models such as GPT-2/3.
Once a script is assembled, I then work to interpret it as a performance. My aim is to draw out meanings encoded within language: uncovering the desires, biases and assumptions embedded within the algorithm, and in turn, revealing how the feedback loops of human and machinic language constantly work to shape and reshape reality.
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Simulation 1.1 - Fake Death, 2017
Simulation 1.3 - Ovid's Unicorn, 2019
Simulation 1.4 - Alien Encounter, 2019
Simulation 1.5 - A LaMDA Instance, 2022