Relay project was part of Frequency Digital Arts Festival 2023
‘Relay’ explores the role of accessible technology in creating art, how the AI/human interaction evolves and exposes the limitations of the data available for mining which reflects the inequities in society. The internet is white, cisgender male, western and must be coaxed into responding with a different voice through carefully chosen language and for all the AI’s flamboyance there is no nuance.
A time-travelling AI takes the form of a Roman soldier transported to contemporary Lincoln and attempts to fit in. The interlocking images emerge from one narrative text. ‘Relay’ seeks to create the nuance to better reflect what it is to be human through the telling of a tale through time and the timeless condition of what it is to be human.
A collaboration of ideas from Lincoln-based emerging creatives and Lumo Workshop. The group was formed a month ago to explore the impact that technology has on our daily lives and how it can be a tool in art-making, creating an exhibition with accessible technology at its core in an iconic historic location and the original Roman gateway to the city.
