Thesis
Drawing portals: conjurings amidst the ceaseless influence of machine analyses and consensus realities
Washington State University
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102494
Abstract
Throughout life we allow ourselves to be submerged in and affected by mediated experiences. The devices and electronic systems that serve as the mediators of these experiences are casually accepted as typical features in our lives. However, these mechanisms and devices are far from casual in their affect and wield the power to shape our environments, perception, mood, and destiny. Behind the screen lay automation in the form of daemon scripts which perform various background operations within software, these scripts are unseen and typically inaccessible to the "end-user". In my work, I reconnect the esoteric nature of this media with its mystical etymological root word and process, the daemon. The mystical daemon operates between a mortal and divine realm and serves as an intermediary. Our electronic devices and mediated experiences serve us in similar ways as we become more and more guided and influenced by their hand. I manipulate the occult imagery derived from neural network training data sets and bots that automatically trawl the web for user data. From these altered images I derive machine code to feed back in to openly-sourced and designed drawing machines. My artistic process is one that synthesizes my analogue whisper and human critique along with the machine's own ceaseless digital whine.
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Details
- Title
- Drawing portals
- Creators
- Jared Chappell Boorn
- Contributors
- Reza Safavi (Chair)Sena Clara Creston (Committee Member)Squeak Meisel (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Fine Arts, Department of
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Fine Arts, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525020201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis