Artist and Near Now Studio Member Rachel Parry will demo and share insights into their recent project MALPER, an online storytelling project driven by AI.
MALPER is a weird and wonky web-based, interactive clickable experience, using the artist's personal data from their project MALFUNCTIONING PERFECTLY.
Rachel Parry and their collaborator, Bristol-based Creative Technologist Rachel Smith, have been teaching a chatbot about liveness from a Neurodivergent/Disabled point-of-view. Resulting in a playful, but often disastrous, choice-driven uncanny experience that devolves into chaos.
In this Near Now Studio Talk we'll explore how the project went through an iterative R&D process, through exploration and collaboration. Rachel will discuss the challenges of working with chatbots and AI, and creating a complex artwork about ADHD, with ADHD.
MALPER's development is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and was recently selected for a commission and presentation at Chronic Insanity Theatre Company's Puncture the Screen festival of data-driven digital art and performance.
Framework for Practice is a project led by visual artist/curator Ryan Boultbee and architectural designer/artist Will Harvey. It represents the creation of a space to support the growth of new ideas.
Framework for Practice is a temporary scaffolding structure modifying Broadway Gallery into a space for supporting and inspiring sustainable creative research. The framework adapts to host a series of events, with the aim of supporting creatives to generate new ideas and starting points to research.
