Eight-layer interactive audio-visual Metamedia. Hover over the viewport to press play and control the layers. The third and final in a trilogy of Metamedia meditations.

Eight-layer interactive audio-visual Metamedia. Hover over the viewport to press play and control the layers. The second in a series of Metamedia meditations.

SOUND ON.

Sonified global wealth gaps provide an abrasive soundtrack to AI-generated solutions to poverty that keep getting increasingly more radical.

Sonifying data sets extracted from widening global income gaps using custom tools developed by the artist, Basic Needs Guaranteed enlists an LLM to generate a series of increasingly radical solutions to poverty. Utilizing predictive text as an unrepentant mirror, the steadily intensifying soundtrack reflects the urgency of growing inequality. A building chorus of RAVE-encoded murmurs tracing the contours of wealth ratios gives voice to the those living below acceptable thresholds. The piece aims to expose poverty's persistence as a Gordian knot at the twisted heart of a tangled web of systemic issues. Expressed with familiar typefaces, the generated sloganeering makes a self-aware nod to propaganda, raising the question: why do fundamental necessities seem beyond reach in our current era of techno-capitalist excess?

50% of proceeds automatically go to: savethechildren.org

Data sourced from: ourworldindata.org/poverty#explore-data-on-poverty (Joe Hasell, Max Roser, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Pablo Arriagada)

Six-layer interactive audio-visual Metamedia. Hover over the viewport to press play and control the layers. The first in a new series of Metamedia meditations. Initially minted for Refraction x ETH Berlin 2024.

More information on Metamedia: meta-media.club

Combining manipulated satellite imagery with sonified data sets, LXD-1 explores layers of complicity and non-compliance implied in surveillance, data extraction, and climate breakdown. The interactive, asynchronous convergence of audio-visual layers, when fully activated, invokes the overwhelming sensation of an accelerated lifetime’s planetary flux.

Using data sets commencing from the artist’s year of birth sonified with custom tools and accompanied by deliberately decimated images, can you decipher the territory implied by the map?

Beckoning viewers to confront their role in a world increasingly dependent on inscrutable data flows while undergoing profound ecological transformation, LXD-1 invokes the intersection of individual agency and collective responsibility amidst the ceaseless flux of our shared biosphere and the emerging technological systems reshaping it — with or without our consent.

Constructed with Sonification Tools developed by the artist for Manifest Audio: manifest.audio

Hover over the piece to reveal the control menu. Click the play button to start audio and video, click circular layer toggles to interact, and explore the layers within. Best viewed on desktop using a Chrome-based browser.

Learn more about Metamedia at: meta-media.club