Event overview
Paraspaces is the product of a collective residency between artists from Goldsmiths Computing Department in collaboration with arebyte Gallery and AOS (arebyte on screen).
In response to Arebyte Gallery’s artistic programme Realities, which explores various speculative truths (and fictions) present within the complexities of living and nonliving bodies, a group of students from the Goldsmiths Computing Department are once again collaborating with Arebyte to develop an experimental residency. The group have entitled their collective / multi-authored residency ‘Paraspaces’ which offers up a series of open, loosely connected online spaces in which their expanded residency will take place.
Their constantly evolving description of these ‘Paraspaces’ has been made through cooperation with a machine-learning model. Residency members feed the GPT-2 algorithm prose in which they write about ideas around Paraspaces, then in response the algorithm generates text and completes their sentences. Borrowing from cut-up techniques used in literacy and music composition, these statements act as a living, responsive archive, always in a state of flux - reflecting the developing nature of the residency model itself.
The current version reads as follows:
‘Paraspaces are an emergent property of swarm behavior, rising out of our collective belief. Through communal engagement: be it from semi-anonymised forum posters; neural network-powered bots; or anonymised non-profits, Paraspaces emerge often, and without a trace. Layers of woven realities, drifting off…
The residency traces mycelial links between Paraspaces, following evidence of lost civilisations through deserted forums, esoteric institutions and the occasional small-scale internet connection - an exercise in distributed para-cartography. Will the lines drawn and the values found be real, whole or just holes?’
Paraspaces runs online from September 13th till October 11th 2021 and will include workshops, panels, performances and public interventions.
Dates & times
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13 Sep 2021 | 12:00am - 12:00am |
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