'Trauma Doll' is at its essence a speculative exploration of what might emerge from the combination of the personal, the memetic and the the overlap between mental health and our internet habits and how an artificial intelligence might cope with the messy, uncomfortable influence of our very human selves project into our digital spaces.
Initiated as a speculative work, it takes its starting point in the mundanity of browsing history, and what effect it might have if ingested by machine learning, or AI, and how exposure to the depths of humanity online might lead to the extraction of negative patterns. It's exposure to a fragmentary stream of humanity, extracted from what Sofia's browser was exposed to over a longer period of time, leads to diverse elements - personal messages, philosophical texts, anatomical drawings, memes, wikipedia articles, and more - forming digital collages of not only online existence, but also the psychological experience these pixels have caused.
(exhibition at Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2019)
'Trauma Doll' is at its essence a speculative exploration of what might emerge from the combination of the personal, the memetic and the the overlap between mental health and our internet habits and how an artificial intelligence might cope with the messy, uncomfortable influence of our very human selves project into our digital spaces.
Initiated as a speculative work, it takes its starting point in the mundanity of browsing history, and what effect it might have if ingested by machine learning, or AI, and how exposure to the depths of humanity online might lead to the extraction of negative patterns. It's exposure to a fragmentary stream of humanity, extracted from what Sofia's browser was exposed to over a longer period of time, leads to diverse elements - personal messages, philosophical texts, anatomical drawings, memes, wikipedia articles, and more - forming digital collages of not only online existence, but also the psychological experience these pixels have caused.
(exhibition at Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2019)
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year: 2017-2018
medium: digital collage
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