The Red Earth Project (2019-)

Introduction
  1. Overview    
  2. Research
  3. A Lecture at Princeton

The Books
  1. About
  2. Red Earth in the Paris Review
  3. Themes
  4. Form
  5. Where to buy
  6. What Lies Beyond the Red Earth?

Sales

Process and Output
  1. Conceptual Development
  2. Photography
  3. Prose
  4. Computational and Subjective Translation
  5. Digital to Physical
  6. Process 1: Process and Theory
  7. Process 2: Making
  8. Compositions

Selected Works
  1. Red Earth, The Book
  2. Ever Abeokuta
  3. Colonial Enterprise
  4. Red Earth
  5. Amor Fati
  6. Direct Translation Diptychs 1, 2, 3 & 4
  7. Sixteenth Century Technology
  8. How Can Time Become a Circle
  9. Deference
  10. Solitary Breath

Exhibitions & Performances
  1. Studio Hanniball
  2. Archive of Forgetfulness
  3. Listening to the Red Earth, a film

Community
   1. The Red Earth Playlist
   2. Beyond the Zero Podcast
   3. EDIT Magazin

Related Works
  1. Planetary Portals
  2. Losing is Ours
  3. Cybernetics, or Ghosts? An anthology
  4. Domicile 4

Next Steps

Object Int’l —
Info
  1. The Red Earth Project is an ongoing artistic, interdisciplinary study centred on prose reflections and machine translation, drawing attention to the precarious status of non-western cultural heritage, knowledge systems and practices in the increasingly dominant Western systems of data, virtual architectures and AI technologies. A critical study of machine learning (AI), this research asks how alternative cosmologies can be better represented within virtual architectures powered by probabalistic computation. 

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Domicile 4: Haptics and the Natural World.


He Fights Certainty
Fine art print
41 x 26cm 
2021


Domicile 4 (2022), is a work of speculative fiction which interrogates the potential of CRISPR gene-editing and the ethical disregard towards the cognitive extraction currently facilitating the development of Artificial Intelligence. 

In the story, mega-conglomerate corporations have completely replaced nation-states, and citizens are no more, as populations are all now just employees. Low-ranked employees from the ‘Global South’ become sites of interspecies experimental research, where the intelligence of extinct deep sea life, such as octopi, is regenerated within the biological and cognitive infrastructure of these ‘employees’ to aid the search for new ways to communicate with and sustain a decimated inhuman world, which, for its survival, is shifting and rebuilding in a way that is inhospitable to humans. 

This work was published in Retro Future, by Next Nature. If you would like to see more, get in touch.  

“ Everything he felt, from the carpet between his toes, to the spiky underside of an Aloe Vera leaf, to the longing for Yemisi, merged into a single current and hovered there within him, poised, ready to be valuable to his employers, whom he asked, right there and then, where feeling ended, and feelings began. They didn’t answer. He already knew they wouldn’t. Condensation on the glass walls of his domicile thickened, and the rainforest outside flattened into an intricate dark silhouette, stark and dead, as shards of battered and burnt tree trunks jutted out sharply from the dank mass below, cutting into the thick non-existing atmosphere, reminding him it was 10.30pm and time to check-in. He placed his hand against the thick glass of his domicile, freeing currents stored within the Sensors planted within him – nodes wrapping his nerve endings – to deliver his haptic perceptions from the day, which went into teaching and reconstructing the appearance of what remained from a world still misunderstood.”