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The performance references the rites and nomenclature of the modern spiritualist movement whose devotees held gatherings and séances across the western world around the turn of the 20th century hoping to communicate with spirits of the dead. By manually performing the neural network, the work frames deep learning as communion with an emergent intelligence, presenting black-box neural networks as divination and questioning contemporary narratives of machine learning as artificial intelligence."},{"type":"textblock","content":"The ritual is enacted on a large analog computer made of several concentric discs, a string of wooden beads and a book which holds the weights and biases of the network."},{"type":"textblock","content":"Reading aloud from a book, one member of the séance instructs the others to rotate and align the discs in specific increments that represent the multiplication, summation and activation of values. Holding the beads first to their forhead and then counting back and forth, the reader keeps track of the floating point. Borrowing the interaction modes of a Ouija board, the apparatus is designed to be controlled by several users at once."},{"type":"textblock","content":"Comparisons between machine learning and magic are common even amongst experts and practitioners. Although the mathematics of neural networks are well defined, the models they produce are invariably complex and indecipherable. They work, but it is difficult to explain why or how. When used in this way, deep learning is a form of divination, an arcane set of steps that delivers answers without explanations. Without explanation, to trust the network is an act of faith."},{"type":"textblock","content":"The work was first performed for the CHI conference in Montreal in April 2018. It was performed for a second time for The Fig Tree exbibition at AD Space in September 2019."}], "thumbnail": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/seance_small.jpg", "hover_thumbnail": "/images/seance-thumbnail.jpg", "thumbshape": "3/2", "slug": "the-other-side", "hero": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/seance.jpg", "role": "" } , { "date": "2018-01-01 00:00:00 +0000", "title": "Variations", "url": "/works/variations/", "content": [{"type":"gallery","images":["https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_53.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_2.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_3.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_7.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_8.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_9.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_4.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_5.png","https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_6.png"]}], "thumbnail": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_53.png", "hover_thumbnail": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_3.png", "thumbshape": "1/1", "slug": "variations", "hero": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/variations_53.png", "role": "" } , { "date": "2017-09-07 00:00:00 +0000", "title": "Pixel Sorting Experiments", "url": "/works/pixel-sorting/", "content": [{"type":"textblock","content":"A series of experiments arranging the pixels of one image to form another. Each image is a permutation of the colours pixels from a modern painting."},{"type":"figure","src":"/images/pixel-sort-1.png","extra_classes":"md:col-start-2"},{"type":"figure","src":"/images/pixel-sort-3.png"},{"type":"figure","src":"/images/pixel-sort-2.png","extra_classes":"md:col-start-2"}], "thumbnail": "/images/pixel-sort-thumbnail.jpg", "hover_thumbnail": "/images/pixel-sort-2.png", "thumbshape": "1/1", "slug": "pixel-sorting", "hero": "/images/pixel-sort-3.png", "role": "" } , { "date": "2016-06-01 00:00:00 +0000", "title": "After x", "url": "/works/after-x/", "content": null, "thumbnail": "/images/after-x-thumbnail.jpg", "hover_thumbnail": "/images/after-x-2.png", "thumbshape": "1/1", "slug": "after-x", "hero": "/images/after-x-0.png", "role": "" } , { "date": "2015-04-01 00:00:00 +0000", "title": "Artificial Artists", "url": "/works/artificial-artists/", "content": null, "thumbnail": "/images/ava-1.jpg", "hover_thumbnail": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/artificial_artists_1.jpg", "thumbshape": "3/2", "slug": "artificial-artists", "hero": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/artificial_artists_1.jpg", "role": "" } , { "date": "2013-08-01 00:00:00 +0000", "title": "Nest", "url": "/works/nest/", "content": null, "thumbnail": "/images/nest-thumbnail.jpg", "hover_thumbnail": "", "thumbshape": "3/2", "slug": "nest", "hero": "https://storage.googleapis.com/kieranbrowne-public-files/images/nest_1.jpg", "role": "" } , { "date": "2013-05-01 00:00:00 +0000", "title": "Complicit Cinema", "url": "/works/complicit-cinema/", "content": null, "thumbnail": "/images/complicit-cinema-thumbnail.jpg", "hover_thumbnail": "/images/complicit-cinema-3.jpg", "thumbshape": "3/2", "slug": "complicit-cinema", "hero": "/images/complicit-cinema.jpg", "role": "" } ]