Machines Dreaming Dream Rooms Where No Dreams Are Dreamed
Machines Dreaming Dream Rooms Where No Dreams Are Dreamed
“The doctoring of photographs is an activity as old as the medium itself, but in this case the operation [is] being performed automatically and invisibly on the artefacts of personal memory. And yet [...] images are always false, artificial snapshots of moments that have never existed as singularities, forced from the multidimesional flow of time itself. Unreliable documents; composites of camera and attention. They are artefacts not of the world and of experience, but of the recording process - which, as a false mechanism, can never approach reality itself.”
Machines Dreaming Dream Rooms Where No Dreams Are Dreamed is an extended body of work and research. It comprises of both written essays and a collection of artefacts, film, original and found images and data that are displayed as installations.
It began with a re-examination of photos I took in my teenage years of the decaying, empty, incomplete landscapes I grew up in in the North West of England, whilst simultaneously reflecting on documentation I had collected over the years of the digital spaces and ‘artificial’ landscapes I also grew up in.
MDDRWNDAD is also an exploration into how both human and emergent machine minds conceptualise and dwell on the ideas of space, territory and sensory stimuli; not only how they reflect, react to and inform one another, but ultimately how they are haunting one another as they continue to merge.
MDDRWNDAD collates my work critically sifting through the emergent cultural theories that attempt to locate and orient us amidst the chaos and conspiratorial paranoia of the reality fractured post-internet net. From AI as hyperobject to examining the fascination with the weird/eerie/uncanny that can so often be encountered at the edges of the internet’s least defined or longest-abandoned zones.
