Dunlop, Jane Frances ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4350-5381 (2025) select important things (voices). [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

The voice is a marker of personhood, a deliverer of information, a piece of biometric data. In select important things (voices), knowledge system videos – short videos combining stock footage with anecdote and autotheortical reflections – are arranged as a chorus, straining a single voice’s ability to make sense. What is at stake as voices come together - in crowds of political protest, in the choruses of historical and contemporary performance and in the composites generated by “machine intelligences”? select important things (voices) is part of crowds choruses composites, a series of explorations, artworks and critical reflections that focus on the literal and metaphorical ways a voice is constructed and construed in this context. The project brings together a body of artworks that interrogate knowledge making in the 21st century, responding to the cultural and social shifts brought on by two crises of knowledge that have come to define the last decade: the rise of ‘alternative facts’ that undermine and destabilise expertise, and the increasingly complex AI systems for which datasets operate as intelligence. Thinking technology through performance, the project investigates collective intelligence in an era of mass information. The result is a series of explorations into public masses, aestheticized publics, and the dataset that mechanise, capture and conflate those mass human intelligences.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Uncontrolled Keywords:	voices, stock footage, digital art
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration T Technology > T Technology (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > Centre for Sound and Image Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Design and Creative Industries
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2026 14:07
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/52650

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