GPT3 (9mins) is an ongoing video piece filmed at local teenage hangouts at Linn Park Cemetery in Glasgow over the first lockdown; intermixed with footage of tech destruction, Hellraiser quotes, early video synthesizer tests, found Satanic Panic VHS tapes and broken Y2K cameras. GPT3 is placed as a moving image work that is a fragmented digital dust screen, an abyssal diary of artificial laments to past bookmarked regions, haunted esoteric tech futures and queer cosmic pessimism.
The first part, GRAVEN IMAGE, encompasses questions that were posed to the earlier versions of Open AI's language model gpt3 on what its ‘intuitions’ are at that point about human consciousness. The resulting non human and disembodied voice recounts the ‘answers’ it gave, placed over remnants of the Cemetery’s shifting and trashed debris. The concluding part, WE CAME, offers up for sacrifice an artifice of pixelated queer doom; here a sick voice unfolds a childhood campfire tale of night visitations. A story that was found, archived and then anonymously deleted on a subReddit in 2020.
Commissioned by Most Dismal Swamp (Dane Sutherland) for Dismal Session no.12. Dismal Sessions is an ongoing series of dank mixes, fermented visions, sacred texts, trash vector collect calls, ambient occlusions, cursed ASMR, sublime leaks and bad datasets; an ecstatic content collapse. The Dismal Sessions are audio-visual artefacts by various visual artists, musicians, DJs, avatars, producers, machines, sprites, poets, homies, and more. This virtual exhibition brings together the first 21 Dismal Sessions. It is a sprawling underground festival in which to immerse; a thick tangle of uneven and combined heresies in which to lose yourself.
An additional screening of 'GPT-3' was programmed as part of 'Cowlick in a Devil's Peak: A Night of Artists' Film' at CCA Glasgow in October 2021. This event veers and ascends, challenging normative conceptions of the weird, the grotesque and the paranormal. Bringing together local and international artists, there is a particular focus on the use of sound as a driving force for storytelling: a phone call, an orchestral motif, techno-electronica beat, a pop song, birdsong and village voice. Featuring work from Anika Ahuja, Ayla Dmyterko, Audie Murray, Ayam Yaldo, Fionn Duffy, Georgia Gendall, Heather Raquel Phillips, Hio Lam Lei, Maiko Jinushi, and Michelle Hannah.
