Artificial Isolation - real-time manipulation of text, speech and sound. Intervention in an empty meeting room using speech, digital and printed text created by IBM Watson an artificial intelligence system. The space was hired for this site specific intervention to recreate a council meeting, the councillors were replaced by machines. Due to a covid19 admin mix up on the day no one was allowed into the space, seemed to fit nicely.
The Whitworth Building – Library Room - October 2020 - UK

Inspired by an essay written by:
Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy - 1869