The Nemesis Machine – From Metropolis to Megalopolis to Ecumenopolis. 2022 version.

THERE ARE MANY ‘DISTRICTS’ TO THE ARTWORK AND CAN INCLUDE:-. Nemesis - Authenticity - Soundcities - Diversity - Electricity - Toxicity - Omnicity - Publicity - Simplicity - University - Multiplicity - Velocity - Capacity.

The Nemesis Machine. An ever evolving artwork, always different and always expanding. The artwork shown here is 100 metres square. The complexity is incorporated in the real time agency. This is augmented by several layers that might not appear initially evident as you unpack this multi- disciplinary artwork. It has many internal real time living systems including:- two sensor networks inside the artwork in the gallery, facial recognition embedding the audience in the structure, news feeds, twitter feeds and financial data. It also links to smart city networks and data feeds from 200 cities incorporating pollution data, weather data and transport data incorporating AI and machine learning, and a custom IOT sensor network. The artwork also further embeds the audience as units of data as actual performers by tracking them in the gallery and in the city and incorporating these data into the experience.  Shoshana Zuboff  says we have walked blindly into the Age of Surveillance Capitalism. However this real-time cybernetic artwork demonstrates clearly how we are complicit in social space at all times in this bigger machine. The artwork not only contributes to a field of practice I call panoptic aesthetics but is performative on a global scale since we are all now units of data being parsed by the machine. Thus the Nemesis Machine is a spectacle in the literal sense and also in its more overt sense in that it is an object of control.

For full project info see here. (http://stanza.co.uk/nemesis-machineweb/index.html)

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