Workshop: Intrusive Thoughts

Intrusive thoughts: the internal monologue of a stressed singularity.

A workshop led by Sam Lieblich

This in-person event is FREE and will be held at the gallery.

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Application deadline: Midnight, Tuesday May 3, 2022. Places are limited.

Techno-futurists believe “The Singularity”—when human and artificial intelligence combines to form a world-spanning super-intelligence—is the inevitable next step in the evolution of life on Earth; but what happens when the worldwide super-mind starts spiralling? And what if the singularity is already here and it’s literally just obsessing over whether we’ve all bought toilet paper this week?

This workshop will be delivered by the artist in the gallery. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the artwork and they will introduced to the thought of John C. Lilley, Ray Kurzweil, and other outsiders and futurists, whom we will read through the work of Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud. After establishing a theoretical grounding we will use state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, and a set of especially adapted writing exercises, to learn to listen—to ourselves and to the algorithm—so that we might predict what comes next. What will it be like when the internet scrolls us? Get ready to see Siri stress the fuck out!

These workshops are free and open to writing and technology enthusiasts.

Participants will contribute to a living AI artwork on display at FUTURES.

Access services including Auslan available on request. Writers of all abilities and from any state or territory are encouraged to apply.

Presented by Free Association and FUTURES as part of PHOTO 2022