I very much hoped to have The Circular Life and Death of Images ready for Peckham24 this weekend. But it’s not quite there yet, and since it has images included that were taken in 2014, and has therefore taken over ten years to produce, I think it’s worth waiting a few more weeks to get it right, despite its modest format. Here are some images that will be included (well, I’m 99% certain at the moment)… watch this space for news of the zine’s belated arrival.
Instead of promoting that zine this weekend, I have done or am doing the following:
- I have released two zines as free downloadable PDFs on my website under the menu labelled ‘Writing’: https://www.sarahjanefield.com/writing
why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers/ (2021)
and
LAMELLA://pamphlet (2023).
Since both deal with language and technology, they provide relevant snapshots of our relationship with digitised media, and I want to share those moments with people as widely as possible.
The text from the astronaut project emerged following chats with a precursor to today’s large language models, Replika, during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The text from the pamphlet culminated after a yearlong artistic inquiry into the release of large language model ChatGPT to the general public in 2022 and Claude in 2023. - I will be taking a newspaper (4pp) to Peckham which I made in 2018 to accompany a project titled i will have call you (sic). This publication also focuses on language and digitised technologies. Again, I am giving this away for free. However, a small donation to Royal Trinity Hospice, MND Association or Dignity in Dying would be greatly appreciated in exchange. As the work was made in my late friend Jenny Baylis’ honour and the title emerged following a text she sent me during her illness, this seems most appropriate. Perhaps even more so today, given the fact that MPs are debating the assisted dying Bill and voting on key amendments which will determine whether the Bill moves forward.
Please contact me if you are interested in this publication but cannot get to Peckham so I can post the newspaper. The project is no longer public-facing on my website, but you can see images from the project here and from the exhibition here.
Finally, over the weekend, along with recent works, I will also be selling personal copies of zines I produced in the past but which are no longer available to purchase on my website. I look forward to seeing some of you there. I am sharing a table with Maria Ahmed, Phillipa Bloomfield and Iana Mizguina. Come find us! x
PS. I nearly forgot! Some or one (I have no idea) of my AI images are included on a video wall in Milan this weekend as part of this AI festival (Organised by AI Week Italia and Co-Meta). I am so surprised any of these images were chosen, not because I don’t think they’re ‘worthy’, but because I wasn’t sure they’d appeal. But yay!
