This work was presented at ZKU openhaus and is the resultant sketch of a two month residency at ZKU (berlin) as part of JANK collective (with members Paige Glancey and Anika Gardner).
hustle culture meets human redundancy : no fire, no hire.
this sculptural + video installation explores changing relations to labour, due to accelerating technological innovations of AI and robotics, as underemployment leaks into unemployment.
two welding screens hang suspended in geometric space, actuated by FESTO robotic pneumatic muscles in a push- pull. the form is evocative of the iterative optimisation processes of searching the non-euclidean parameter space in machine learning / neural network algorithm tuning. wat (why) r we optimizing?
video on latex show ai / robots taking ur job / supplementing labour in unsafe working conditions.
theoretics of conviviality suggest a framework to design and develop tools that work with human and non-human eco-systems. the polarising profit-driven thrust of private industry innovation is not regulated to serve this purpose. where will this burgeoning trajectory lead in 10 years?
materiality, code and brain rot converge in an automated aesthetic.
This work was supported by CreateSA, and many thanks to Stelarc for loan of the rubber muscles.
