Machine learning systems are anchored in the Corpus—the foundational body of data from which patterns, shapes, trajectories, and topologies are extrapolated.
Corpus is an automated biographical generative film that perpetually writes and rewrites one-minute narratives, drawing from archival sources that map the artist’s life. The film merges moments of ‘ground truth’—incidental, day-to-day fragments of life in London, captured on an iPhone with a film-generating system that combines custom text and visual models. These machine learning systems intricately weave the visuals of ground truth with extracts from a family archive, penned by the artist’s mother.
The film emerges as a fictional connective tissue, threading together various pasts and perspectives from the artist’s family history. These interwoven narratives, told in the first person, traverse time, generations, and space, connecting disparate fragments of meaning. They unlock a new ‘witnessing’ of past events, offering new perspectives on family history and offer a new porosity between past and future.
Exhibitions
FRIEZE, 9 Cork Street, London, September 2024