Corin Sworn & Claricia Parinussa, 'eco-co-location' (2021). Photo: George Hampton Wale.
The third instalment in Corin Sworn's research series 'Moving in relation' takes the form of a conversation between Corin Sworn and political philosopher Louise Amoore, now available to listen online.
Louise Amoore is author of 'Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others' (2020) and lecturer at Durham University whose research has informed Sworn’s current investigative performance practice.
Sworn and Amoore discuss understanding algorithms, AI ethics, and the intimacy that connects together human and algorithmic relations. With reference to Sworn’s performances ‘eco-co-location’ and ‘This Harmonic Chamber’ they consider what place these technologies occupy in the world.
Touching on different histories of science and the prioritisation of rationality over embodied knowledge, algorithms are understood as an arrangement of propositions which are often used to model likelihood. Algorithms shape and are shaped by their porous engagement with the world; they participate in generative algorithm-to-algorithm relationships and demonstrate fallibility through enacting logics of misrecognition or ‘algorithmic madness’. Sworn and Amoore’s conversation reflects on the ways algorithms inform our everyday perception and impact how we interact with one another from an interpersonal to a judicial level.
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With thanks to Louise Amoore.
Sound Editing: Corin Sworn
Additional Sound Editing: Duncan Marquiss
