What Is Happening Inside?

"My piece is a détournement of three archive recordings from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s archive about the conception of interconnected computer systems and real-time simulations to be used in military training. This research now came to dominate decision making from policing to city planning, while remaining ontologically indistinguishable from the original militaristic logic of the project. My piece aims to show how subjective machines of sensing are capable of creating new information from gaps of data and that these simulated images are then used by systems of machine vision to justify their decision making and biases, forming a feedback loop."

Trigger warning: the piece contains archival footage from American military archives, which might be triggering for some listeners - the piece is intended to critique military training methods and is in no way promoting military propaganda. 

Aron is an artist and researcher based in London, currently working towards a master’s degree in Situated Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture. His current research examines how information capitalism and its associated infrastructures enable new forms of exploitation and how this is reflected in the built environment. He uses sound and digital media to intervene in machine vision and remote sensing systems, translating them into tangible forms. This allows us to be critically engaged with them and recognise how images produced by them are used to reinforce their own biases.

"For Crystallised Estate, I recorded the sounds of two locations where Brutalist housing estates were built - the Barbican and Elephant & Castle. These recordings, many of which were picked up from the vibrations of the solid concrete, were arranged alongside text written reflecting on these environments. Why does one estate persist as a grade II listed building while the location where the Heygate estate stood is claimed by redevelopers? I explore how access to a sense of place, with the history and stability that includes, has become rarefied."

Tam Lines is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and musician. Their work often focuses on the boundaries between the human and nonhuman, incorporating post-humanist and queer theory, new materialist thought, cybernetics, horror and sci-fi media and introspective poetic approaches.

Current fields of research include:

• Attempting eerie and absurd artistic approaches to circumvent the tendency in digital culture to alienate creators and consumers from their work, social relationships, and their environments.
• Sonic investigations into urban non-places in a time of rent crisis.
• Critical investigations into the role that corporate AI has in further disenfranchising artists.