Online Film Screening, Presentation of Research and Conversation
'500nm', 2019, was filmed at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, Glasgow and documents the applications of Moore's Law as it reaches its exponential limits. A disembodied voice narrates the measures taken to remove human traces from the nano-scale imaging processes used to print circuits on silicon computer chips. Footage shows lab employees pacing from one end of the room to the other, air and light diffuse and controlled like a museum archive or an old tomb. They gingerly hold things too small to see, unsure of whether to aim for their disappearance or preservation.*
The screening will be accompanied by a conversation between Siri Black, Goethe Institute, Colette Sadler.
Siri Black will also be presenting the research behind '500nm', and how it informs her ongoing interest in the communication between human and artificial agents. How do our existing descriptive systems grapple with the concept of non-human agency, and how might a better, speculative and non-anthropomorphic language look?
About Siri Black:
Siri Black lives and works in Glasgow. Her work is the love child of anachronism and technophila. Siri works across analog and digital photography, film and sound to create installations that seek to trace instances of the couching of state power with technological prowess. Important is the detritus left in the wake of accelerated progress; the gaps of archives, the not so easily translate-able entanglements.
Footnote*: 'OUR WORLD - THE WORLD TO COME', Map Magazine, Esther Draycott
This programme is supported by Creative Scotland, The Work Room, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Tramway.
Instagram: @quitesqualid
Online Film Screening, Presentation of Research and Conversation
'500nm', 2019, was filmed at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, Glasgow and documents the applications of Moore's Law as it reaches its exponential limits. A disembodied voice narrates the measures taken to remove human traces from the nano-scale imaging processes used to print circuits on silicon computer chips. Footage shows lab employees pacing from one end of the room to the other, air and light diffuse and controlled like a museum archive or an old tomb. They gingerly hold things too small to see, unsure of whether to aim for their disappearance or preservation.*
The screening will be accompanied by a conversation between Siri Black, Goethe Institute, Colette Sadler.
Siri Black will also be presenting the research behind '500nm', and how it informs her ongoing interest in the communication between human and artificial agents. How do our existing descriptive systems grapple with the concept of non-human agency, and how might a better, speculative and non-anthropomorphic language look?
About Siri Black:
Siri Black lives and works in Glasgow. Her work is the love child of anachronism and technophila. Siri works across analog and digital photography, film and sound to create installations that seek to trace instances of the couching of state power with technological prowess. Important is the detritus left in the wake of accelerated progress; the gaps of archives, the not so easily translate-able entanglements.
Footnote*: 'OUR WORLD - THE WORLD TO COME', Map Magazine, Esther Draycott
This programme is supported by Creative Scotland, The Work Room, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Tramway.
Instagram: @quitesqualid