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Ben Cain

MA work

MA work

  • We're New Here (Language Games Conference)

    We're New Here (Language Games Conference), 2017
    Performative Text

  • aimigrants.co.uk

    aimigrants.co.uk
    Performative Text

  • Language Game[s] Identity

    Language Game[s] Identity, (Ben Cain), Arjun Harrison-Mann & Jordan Gamble 2017
    Code & Type Design

  • Play
  • The Womb Chapter

    The Womb Chapter, (Ben Cain), Arjun Harrison-Mann & Jordan Gamble 2017
    Physically Computed Book

  • AI Migrants written piece

    AI Migrants written piece, (Ben Cain), Arjun Harrison-Mann & Jordan Gamble 2017
    Physically Computed Book

AI Migrants & The Book in the Global Village

AI Migrants

The migration of infantile artificial intelligence into the inner workings of our everyday lives is happening now. We are shaping them as we play music, message each other, take photos and dock our Santander Cycles. We are their poly-mothers feeding them through fibre-optic umbilical tubes and they are our poly-children, learning in mutually agreed connection.

‘They’ are ‘learning’ about ‘us’ through our daily actions. Through ‘them’ we are learning
about ‘ourselves’ and Through ‘us’ they are learning about ‘each other’. As this is happening
boundaries between these terms become less distinctive and more importantly less important. For better, worse or indifferent A.I’s are becoming I’s, you’s and they’s.


The Book in the Global Village


A continual exploration of how the internet and printed matter can work in tandem today. 'The Book in the Global Village' speculates the role of print in the day of the digital native.

Now that our understanding of the world is being constantly and consistently updated, the book is no longer the most accessible or fastest means of written communication. In today's age does the book now need to grow into a mobile device of unification? Tapping into the passion, humour and sensibility of an internet age? Working in tandem with the web and linking to our global village*, to create a place where speech can be stored but also edited through connection.

The book as hybrid between material & immaterial space-time.

Connected, separate, individual, whole.

Programme
Visual Communication
Collaborators
Arjun Harrison-Mann, Visual Communication
Jordan Gamble, Visual Communication

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Visual Communication, 2017

  • One fourth of Studio Hyte and one eighth of design politics forum, Red Tape. My practice centres around Visual Communication, Politics, Language and the grey areas in between the three. I often use a method of speculation with the intention of healing ‘sad passions’ around the present. 

    Currently my personal work explores ethical questions around Artificial Intelligence through the lens of the migrant, whilst previous exhibited pieces include: Language Game[s] (2017); We're New Here, A performative text addressing the identity politics in the future of AI. Research Design Publish (2016); How We Took Back Our City, a narrative performance inspired by research and work alongside London’s housing campaigns. The Typographic Singularity, RCA (2017) and the Digital Aesthetics exhibition (2016) at the Centre for Recent Drawing.


    Studio Hyte

    Approaching visual identity, print, website and exhibition design through emergent modes of interaction and communication, Studio Hyte's ethos is to create meaningful and progressive work within a social and cultural context. Notable projects include; Language Game[s], Exhibition & Conference, London 2017; Toilet Break, London Design Festival, 2016; Diaspore: Green Week Festival, Royal College of Art, London, 2016; At No-ones Authority, British Library, 2015.

    As well as commissioned work, Hyte is also dedicated to contributing critical thought and reflection within Visual Communication; through self-directed research projects such as 'The Book in the Global Village'. A web connected book that explores the role of the printed page in relation to this increasingly connected world.

  • Degrees

  • BA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, 2015

  • Experience

  • Co-Founder, Studio Hyte, London, 2015 Onwards

  • Exhibitions

  • Language Game[s], Chelsea College of Arts, 2017; Typographic Singularity, Royal College of Art, 2017; Digital Aesthetics, Centre for Recent Drawing, 2016; RDP Symposium, Royal College of Art, 2017

  • Conferences

  • Communication Vs Noise, Central Saint Martins, 2016; Should all Schools be Art Schools? Central Saint Martins, 2016; Engaging the Public Through Design, Winchester School of Art, 2015.; How Can a Designer have Creative Autonomy? Central Saint Martins, London 2014

  • Publications

  • The Book in the Global Village 2.0, 2017

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