How to Make (2023)

‘How to Make’ is part of a larger, on-going enquiry into the generative and emergent qualities of photography, and the creative potential of the photographic print. Inspired by a broader cultural context of how-to-videos, step-by-step artificial intelligence, and algorithms, ‘How to Make’ brings together photography, origami instructions, an AI voice generator, and a participatory element, to playfully explore tensions between input and output, and notions of (mis)translation and (mis)interpretation. The work invites participants to listen to the audio and follow the origami instructions, encouraging a tactile response to the photographs provided. Forms and spatial compositions are generated not only by our individual responses to the instructions, and the participants handling of the paper-print, but by its specific material qualities, including its weight, thickness, and pliability.

Digital C-type prints, digital audio (1 min 30 seconds).