A Brick That Came Through The Window in the Dead of Night (2022) 4 minutes, colour, sound

Using AI technology, this film employs a process where deeply personal, heartbreaking texts, that refer to events following my mother’s death, are fed into a GPT-4 program, instructing the computer to generate new narratives. 

The absurd, omnipresent figure of an animated ‘sinister’ coloured brick with the initials BC carved into it (standing for either Before Computers or Before Cancer) serves as a visual metaphor for the intrusion of technology into intimate human moments.

The piece is an exploration of how technology reframes and reinterprets our memories and feelings. The juxtaposition of heart-wrenching human stories and found film footage with the mechanical reproduction of AI narrations raises questions about authenticity, empathy, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines. This work challenges viewers to consider the implications of AI in the realm of human emotion, suggesting a future where our most personal narratives are mediated by the cold logic of digital algorithms.