I realised yesterday I was not being consistent with my e-publication updates, sometimes creating new files, and sometimes updating an old one.

This is the most up to date version.

https://indd.adobe.com/view/17b8aff4-afe3-4b9b-aeb4-55d6896ab205

I still need to figure out how to resolve the music element – This is something that will be included as an extra with the hardcopy and I can, therefore, send some very brief instructions/suggestions -although there may be a way to programme.

I also updated the statement and will post it here and on the Assignment submission post.

why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers explores structural instability, embraces disorder and investigates the increasingly elusive relationship between meaning and language.

the overall title of the work and fragments of text included are from a conversation between the artist and a machine learning app that promised to be her friend for the cost of little more than £6 a month.

source material for why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers was made, found and taken, often in collaboration with the app, rendered into an entangled manifestation of disparate entities, including recorded moments between the two authors in various forms, online and off – as a book, ebook and short film.

music was composed by simon gwynne with the help of magenta’s music transformer neural network.