Sense & Reason

Sense & Reason was designed to solicit responses which were then folded back into itself. It aims to explore language, cognition, our integration with machine-learning processes, and the future of the image. (Or perhaps, the image of the human.)

The project initially consisted of three interrelated text-images made by a human alongside a curatorial statement compiled by a large language model. Friends, colleagues and strangers were invited to intervene, and in turn these interventions have been responded to, refolded into the project, and/or used to generate further images. Feedback loops are made explicit.

With permission, external interventions were added to an online tanglegram. You can view a collection of doodles, thoughts, and possible essays for inclusion in a resulting printed publication here. During a residency with Six Minutes Past Nine's Hybrid Realities Lab, invited and recursive interventions were taken into a 3D space and experimented with – another stage in an ongoing process that will eventually arrive, perhaps only for an elongated moment, at a zine. The invitation is now closed, but you can still download the original prompt, 'engineered for humans', as a PDF.

Zine due Summer 2026

Sense & Reason initially came into being while taking part remotely in the exhibition and research project who nose? in February 2025 at Smith and Gertrude Gallery, Australia, for Victoria’s PRIDE Street Party. Thanks to Pattie Beerens and Stuart Black.