Part of Hybrid Realities :Lab 2 (Lab → Output)
Virtual installation, Newart.city
Sense and Reason explores the relationship between language, cognition and emerging AI systems, questioning how technological developments may reshape the production and meaning of images.
The project began with three interrelated text-images created as prompts for human readers. These texts, visible at the entrance of the space, were accompanied by a curatorial statement generated by a large language model. Together they established a framework for collective engagement.
The initial material was circulated among friends and colleagues with an open invitation to respond or intervene. Contributors were free to work in any medium or process: written reflections, images, dismissals of AI, or other experimental responses. The resulting material was then reintroduced into the project, where the artist generated additional works or adapted existing ones in response.
Through this iterative exchange, the installation functions as an evolving dialogue about the technological conditions shaping contemporary culture. Rather than adopting the polarised rhetoric often associated with discussions of artificial intelligence, the project encourages more nuanced reflection on how increasingly sophisticated systems may transform — or render obsolete — established forms of human activity.
Many contributors chose to remain anonymous. Those who consented to being named are acknowledged within the project catalogue.
Sarah-Jane Field
Related research:
https://sarahjanefieldblog.wordpress.com/category/work-in-progress/sense-and-reason/