‘We could view the trees as cracks in glasses. We could adopt that change in perception. The space that exists around you could be solid – and you could be only a hollow in the middle of that solid space’ Trungpa Rinpoche 1974
The Sign of the Underground was a Salt Road Arts Council England funded socially engaged digital art commission by Jaime Jackson using collaborative drawing, photography and AI.
Jaime asked 200 school children to draw the lines on their hands and imagine them as roots or branches. He created a data set with these images for a Machine Learning generated moving image artwork. He collaborated on the project with Mycelium scientist Justin Stewart from Amsterdam University and the Society for Underground Networks.
Machine Learning images from the create dataset:
Jaime was commissioned by Be Fantastic to produce an AI generated artwork installation with a team of artists for a British Council commission for the Future Fantastic AI and Climate change festival in Banglore 2023. I developed an idea to work with plankton and organised a series of conversations for the team with ocean scientists from the Plymouth Marine Lab and the University of Liverpool.
