So the complexity needs to come at many layers
The fact that the stones are also musical scores is really interesting: the relationality and overlapping between art forms can also be a nice starting point to illustrate human/non-human interdependence, building on how most things are connected.
During the 8 minute performance, the audience witnesses a sonic sculpture which is a feeble human attempt to listen without the ears but with the body in relation with AI. The computer’s decisions are audible to human ears, sonifying invisible data.
This seems very effective: using a spiritual and sensorial approach to AI can distance us from a typical intellectual and physically detached one, cancelling the exploitative rift we created. This Repair/Rewrite section really challenged my view on the different uses and ways to approach AI. It explores alternative perspectives I never thought about before because of my certain skepticism towards this technology. I think your section is really efficient!
Rather than relying on corporate, water-sucking data centers located in remote deserts or low-income areas, neural/dream data collected from indigenous subjects will be digitally stored on their sovereign land and under elder control
Adding a spiritual dimension to our relationship to technology really seems like an efficient alternative way to handle data. I didn't know such a practice (digitally storing neural/dream data) was possible, but now that I do, I find it really is hopeful!
I will offer a brief analysis from both a techno-optimist and techno-pessimist perspective
I think that exploring both perspectives is exactly what makes your hack/undo section work. You don't give an authorial opinion or truth (as the Grand Narrative on the Anthropocene does) about whether this exhibit is efficient, but you give space to your reader to think about it. It's very interesting and efficient, and really made me think about which side I was most inclined to!
To me it seems a little bit like playing God. The exhibits are supposed to emphasize how humans are just a ‘part’ of our complex ecosystem, but the ecosystem prompting this reflection was made entirely by humans
That's really interesting! Even if it is done unintentionally, it demonstrates the power humans hold through technology over non-human entities. And if this exhibit shows how humans can recreate natural ecosystems, it also assumes and reveals that they can equally destroy them.
"The Digital Outdoors?" explores both techno-optimist and techno-pessimist perspectives.
I really like how you add your own artistic touch here! This makes your section feel even more personal and it recenters your relation to the Anthropocene in your project. It reveals how you actively critique it and thrive in it through art: you too, you hack and undo through digital creation.