Performative installation.
Life on FACT transforms a vintage broadcast camera into a real-time nature-documentary narrator. It uses neural networks, computer systems that learn by spotting patterns and processing data in a way loosely inspired by the human brain. Here, the networks are trained to produce a voice similar to that of popular wildlife documentary-maker Sir David Attenborough, subverting you and those around you into objects to be observed and exhibited rather than the artwork. Directing the camera at a new subject provides real-time commentary, poking fun at human exceptionalism by treating human activity in a way we typically reserve for other species. The work raises questions about surveillance and agency: how do external narratives, especially those generated by AI, influence our sense of self, of each other, and of the world around us?
Life on FACT was produced with support from SIGN.
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