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HAYLEY BARKER

My current work investigates the dichotomy of asemic writing as a system that aims to point towards aesthetic properties of language and handwriting while being void of meaning. This comes in contrast to my interest in AI machine learning and its desire to find meaning within all things.

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Developing an internet-engaged process starting with subconscious mark-making, my process of inputting and outputting information explores the poetic potential of digital systems. I follow the text outputs from AI systems through digital streams, as a method of exploring chance encounters in online spaces.

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By questioning agency and authorship in terms of AI, I have developed a particular interest in ethical concerns surrounding lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS) and military usage of technologies. These themes begin to present themselves in my work through a series of AI-generated images that, when reinput into an AI system began to detect people and faces. My current practice explores themes of archive, conflict, surveillance, and technological and human relations.

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