Summation of Life (Detail) - Part 1

Summation of Life (Detail) –Part 1

Presented for the exhibition Same/Everything curated by Tom Smith at Firstdraft, 2016

I generated a series of poems (LOVE, GOD, YOLO, INTERNET LIFESTYLE and PERSONALITY PROFILE) with the help of automatic text prediction program SwiftKey Note. I recorded the poems and set the audio to stock footage found online, and a "zen" music track from YouTube. The result is uncanny: generated entirely with standardised algorithmic technologies, but at the same time, comforting for its seemingly familiar banality.

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Roslyn Orlando

Presented for the exhibition Same/Everything curated by Tom Smith at Firstdraft, 2016

I live and work on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations.
I pay respect to their elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.