Module 3 is a new commission, printed in the AI: More than Human exhibition catalogue and held here in cyberspace. By downloading and printing the STL file (using a 3D printer), the artists invite you to participate in the work’s propagation.
Amy Ireland was commissioned by the Barbican to create an intervention in the AI: More than Human exhibition catalogue. Ireland proposed Module 1, Module 2 and Module 3 - three 3D poems that use artificial intelligence to redistribute the linearity of human language. While Module 1 and 2 have previously been published open source, Module 3 is a new commission, printed in the catalogue (p. 230) and held here in cyberspace. By downloading and printing the STL file (using a 3D printer), Ireland invites you to participate in the work’s propagation.
Referring to the ciphers and following the potentially infinite ‘poetic line’ printed in the exhibition catalogue (pp. 233-235), the poem can be decoded. However, as Ireland reminds us, once the poem has passed through the
encryption process, it can never be decrypted back to a definitive, original, ‘authentic’ text. This is due to the extensive use of homophony and the sonic erasure of boundaries between the beginnings and endings of the words. Therefore, each
decryption will necessarily be artificial.
Amy Ireland is an experimental writer working in the field of xenopoetics. Ireland’s practice employs technological hacking to challenge the limitations of human representation in
literary history, language, and beyond. Raphaël Gadot is a visual effects artist specialising in procedural 3D modelling and animation, known for his work on various science fiction films including The Hunger Games:
Catching Fire (2013), Prometheus (2012), Interstellar (2014), and Alien Covenant (2017).