Dunseath, J and Churcher, C (2024) Flytipping digital waste.
| Item Type: | Film/video |
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| Creators: | Dunseath, J and Churcher, C |
| Abstract: | This short film is composed of nocturnal fly-tipping sites, sliced with computational intelligence and predictive technology. The film navigates everyday realism and speculative fiction against the backdrop of a prowling black car. Driven by automation, advances in technology and the resulting ethical consequences, the film captures waste, simulates speculative waste, and simultaneously creates digital waste. Remnants of the film footage have been dumped across Youtube, Vimeo and other social media platforms. The vehicle's headlights provide an unnerving act of surveillance. Illuminating quiet cul-de-sacs, dead-end roads and unwatched spaces, it identifies sites for finding or dumping disregarded remnants of life. Stained mattresses, broken appliances, wrecked furniture, building waste and decomposing matter become markers of society. The prowling protagonist car is indicative of industrial change with a complex environmental legacy and impact. Its future form is on the verge of becoming a hybrid/electric machine with its fossil fuel form becoming redundant. As the film progresses, real footage is interspersed with speculative fiction created from edited AI imagery. The generated fly tipping AI imagery is formed from real world documentation used to report such waste via digital platforms. The local council's Fly Tipping App now simultaneously serves as a repository for reporting fly-tipping, and a site for generating AI fly tipping. Each image, an entry in an ever-growing digital archive of neglect. The soundtrack is an increasing mix of AI generated sound taking over real time audio. The film’s structure nods to adverts and contemporary post production processes. AI imagery is regurgitated through editing processes akin to the alluring adverts that would have once promoted the now discarded items. Adverts, created from countless edited iterations for numerous broadcast formats and social media platforms, produce a mass of unused content, unseen versions, and data. All accumulating to create non-visible digital landfill. |
| Official URL: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRS6GOnAlp8 |
| Date: | June 2024 |
| Note: | This film received an Honorable Mention in the 'Environment and Climate, Short' category of the Berlin Kiez Film Festival 2025. |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
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| Research Centres and Groups: | Art Research Centre |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2025 18:24 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2025 18:24 |
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