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For my visual essay I want to create animated videos that portray how automation overtook human brain.

In my written essay I used sources of James Bridle and Miriam Rasch and both of these sources portray automation as darkness in our lives, something that is robotizing and alienating us. It is stiring fear in our society. It stops humans from thinking, loving, living, looking (Bridle)(Rasch). My aesthetic reference ‘New Babylon’ by Constant Nieuwenhuys in a way showed humans seeking escape and freeing their inner nomads by creating utopia where humans can live labour free, where everything is automated. The land is owned collectively and instead of working, people are allowed to live nomadic lifestyle with creative expression. While Constant thought that this can be realizable concept it stayed in the side of fiction. In my opinion this proves inevitable negative impact of automation on masses (Cheung).

I got inspired by my aesthetic reference ‘New Babylon’ by Constant Nieuwenhuys, a land, that is called an aesthetic utopia, but in my visual essay, I want to portray dystopia where automation fully overtook human brain and mind and how differently it would look from the utopia Constant painted in their work. Place, where people have no choice to think or look, the only way is to surrender. Perhaps, a possible future scenario. My visuals represents my perspective on humanity living in automated sphere, where creativity and nomad lifestyle is not valuable, where humans have no time to think and live or enjoy their times. The only way to live is to surrender. The medium I chose is very different from how Constant was portraying utopia. It is partly automated and digital, quite different from the painted or sculpted work.

Bibliography:

Bridle, James. “Chasm.” New Dark Age, Verso, 2018, pp. 1–17.

Cheung, Joanne. “1959–1974 - Joanne Cheung.” Medium, 22 Apr. 2018, medium.com/@jcheung/constants-new-babylon-485e6a6592f9.

Hewitt, James. “This Is the Hidden Risk of Automation That No One Is Talking About.” WeForum, James Hewitt, 30 Nov. 2017, www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/automation-automated-job-risk-robot-bored-boredom-effort-fourth-industrial-revolution.

MELCHER, PAUL. “Future A.I. Will Be Able to Generate Photos We Need Out of Nothing.” PetaPixel, 22 June 2015, petapixel.com/2015/06/22/future-a-i-will-be-able-to-generate-photos-we-need-out-of-nothing.

Rasch, Miriam. “De Automatisering De-Automatiseren; De-Automating Automation.” Institute of Network Cultures, 13 Dec. 2019, networkcultures.org/blog/2019/12/13/de-automatisering-de-automatiseren-de-automating-automation.