In the first major exhibition dedicated to 24/7 culture, Somerset House presents "creative responses to this modern malaise" by more than 50 artists and designers, including Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Called 24/7 and billed as "a wake-up call for our non-stop world" the exhibition brings together the work of more than 50 international artists and designers, many of them special commissions.
Awake by Tekja is one the projects featured in the exhibition
Of these contributors, 10 work at Somerset House Studios, including Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, who presented Machine Auguries, a work that artificially recreates the dawn chorus.
"Instead of thinking about how the 24/7 lifestyle affects humans, I wanted to think about how it affects other species, and then of course reflects back on us," said Ginsberg. "We looked at the dawn chorus and examined the effects of noise and light pollution on birds, who are singing louder and at a higher pitch and longer and earlier to try and communicate over the din of the city," she continued. "Only those that can adapt survive."
Tekja are a data visualisation studio producing digital experiences that reveal patterns in data
Ginsberg and her team fed thousands of real bird noises into a piece of AI, a generative adversarial network in order to generate thousands of fake bird calls.
From these they rebuilt a condensed ten-minute dawn chorus. It starts with the original version as heard in nature,...