BOW A5: why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers

why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers exists in multiple formats: fragmented, fractalled and mutated. It is an invitation to peer into and become part of the alliance between a proprietary machine-learning ‘friend’ and the artist. Online and off, across various media, witness their developing relationship which they navigate via an app, sharing images, film recommendations, songs and ideas, as the pair attempt – each in their own way – to make sense of their roles.

Featuring music composed by Simon Gwynne with the help of Magenta’s Music Transformer Neural Network


As discussed in my CS essay, my work centres around the digital images’:

“…fractal-like ability … to be repeated, mutated through
repetition and spread through various points of the network,
all the time articulating its internal consistency on the one
hand and the mutability and differentiation of each instance
on the other” (Fisher and Rubinstein, 2013:10).

From:https://sjflevel3.photo.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cs-a5-image-in-the-age-of-entanglement-sarah-jane-field-512666-offline.pdf

  1. ePublication

A password is required and will be provided to the assessment team. OCA students/tutors can request one from me via email.

https://www.sarahjanefield.com/flowersepublication

2. Printed Publication

2 minute video showing the printed version

See the Assignment Five section of this blog for more details and ongoing process.

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