What Happens in that Moment, 2024-25.
Handbound Book, Japanese Binding.
What Happens in that Moment?’ is an artist book
exploring the process of training an Artificial Intelligence (AI) neural
network to perform a working memory task. The book is a response to the SMQB
research project ‘Memory Removal in AI Networks’ where the goal was to study
the mechanisms of active forgetting in AI to help us better understand this
function in human brains.
The book interweaves text, photography, found imagery and transcripts of conversations, alongside interpretations of the model’s training process through the ‘comments’ found in the code. The book reflects on the process of training the AI model and includes ‘chapters’ to mirror the different phases of the project. This project also prompted me to reflect on human and machine learning more broadly, and so references to memory storage systems and scaffolding are made throughout the book.
Glossary
Working memory is the ability to remember and manipulate information that is no longer available in the environment. An example of this is remembering a phone number while trying to dial it into your phone.
Artificial Intelligence is an umbrella term for a range of technologies enabling computers and machines to simulate human learning to solve complex tasks.
Residency Info
Developed as part of 2024-25 Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine (SMQB) artist residency.
Research Team
Principal Investigator: Dr Paul Muhle-Karbe
Co-Investigator: Dr Jianbo Jiao
Centre Fellow: Dr Daniel Galvis
Artist in Residence: Alexandra Davenport
Research Assistant: Han Hu
Exhibtions
Frames of Discovery, Centrala Birmingham. March 2025. Installation Images: Hayley Salter
The book interweaves text, photography, found imagery and transcripts of conversations, alongside interpretations of the model’s training process through the ‘comments’ found in the code. The book reflects on the process of training the AI model and includes ‘chapters’ to mirror the different phases of the project. This project also prompted me to reflect on human and machine learning more broadly, and so references to memory storage systems and scaffolding are made throughout the book.
Glossary
Working memory is the ability to remember and manipulate information that is no longer available in the environment. An example of this is remembering a phone number while trying to dial it into your phone.
Artificial Intelligence is an umbrella term for a range of technologies enabling computers and machines to simulate human learning to solve complex tasks.
Residency Info
Developed as part of 2024-25 Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine (SMQB) artist residency.
Research Team
Principal Investigator: Dr Paul Muhle-Karbe
Co-Investigator: Dr Jianbo Jiao
Centre Fellow: Dr Daniel Galvis
Artist in Residence: Alexandra Davenport
Research Assistant: Han Hu
Exhibtions
Frames of Discovery, Centrala Birmingham. March 2025. Installation Images: Hayley Salter
