RACHY MCEWAN


Rachy McEwan is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in London. In 2020, she graduated with First Class Honors in a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art, where she was awarded the RSA New Contemporaries Award. More recently, she completed a Master's in Material Futures at UAL: Central Saint Martins with Distinction and was shortlisted for the Maison/0 LVMH Maison Award.

Rachy challenges traditional approaches to human perception through her work, which explores the interconnections between technology and environmental, political, and societal issues. By bridging the natural, artificial, and non-human worlds, she collaborates across disciplines such as engineering, arboriculture, and science to reshape our relationships with the land and more-than-human entities.

Her research and techno-sensual artistic practices foster new dialogues in cognition and machine learning. She introduces innovative concepts like the sensorial ecology of intelligence, the machine microbiome, machine ecosystems, and biological machines.


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REVELATION
2024


https://www.bible-studies.glitch.me/Artificial intelligence has become a common topic in various levels of society. Some are concerned about the future of it, meanwhile, others speculate on its current usage. Nevertheless, there is something many are overlooking which is the different data sets that this new intelligence is being fed. 

Revelation is an interactive installation whose purpose is to show the impact of specific datasets on an AI. This installation takes place as a confessionary where you can talk with God. The Revelations God is an AI that was trained on a confined dataset; the Bible. The process consisted of fine-tuning a neural network originally developed by Open.AI.

To conclude, the Revelations confessional box is intended to provoke the user’s curiosity as to where data comes from and who’s behind it.  One can compare confessing their sins to a priest, to willingly releasing all their information to tech companies. Alternatively, it can also be compared to a parody of a conversation with a fanatic. 




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