BIO:
CHRIS WOOD is an artist and researcher, living between London and Lisbon. He has recently completed a PhD in Media Arts Technology at Queen Mary, University of London working at the intersection of art and human computer interaction. His recent work involves critiquing the ways we engage with our surroundings through technologies of GPS and FM radio. The outcomes of the work are frequently interactive installations and personal encounters, often mediated through sound. These concerns are rooted in his background as a sound recordist, editor and producer in which he explores the powerful ways in which heard and recorded sound affects our lived experience.

WEBSITE:
https://www.chriswood.art

PROJECT:

Artificial Intelligence Experience |Interested in imaginaries around technology, especially the ways emerging technology define our experiences of time and space, Chris Wood, artist in residency at Zaratan, has been recently exploring and working with artificial intelligence, question the boundaries between human and machine and how media represents the world.

The result of this process is a participatory audiovisual installation that includes materials produced by AI, in the form of text, video and sound. While the video comprised of footage of robots and server farms, intercut with other non-human intelligences (mushrooms and siphonophores), the sounds here, as well as the text, are the outputs of a wavenet machine learning algorithim.

PUBLIC PRESENTATION:

Artist Talk | 07/04/18
Workshop | 21/04/18
Concert | 28/04/18
Open Studio | From 26/04/18 to 29/04/18