Safety First (Katie Morris)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
An experimental generative AI video created using manual datamoshing techniques. The title “Safety First” refers to the audio recording playing throughout. A safety announcement was recorded whilst aboard a ferry on its route to an island on the west coast of southern Scotland. Although we can hear passengers being urged to “stay calm” in the event of an emergency, the visuals reject this idea entirely. Instead, we are met by a canvas of panic, chaos and disruption.
Runtime: 24 seconds
AI generated video and datamoshing.
Audio explanation
Listen to Katie Morris discuss this work.
Katie Morris is a Scottish artist currently based in Glasgow, UK, pursuing an honors degree in Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, a renowned institution in the United Kingdom. Morris's practice is characterized by combining traditional techniques with contemporary technology.
She explores the human experience with a keen focus on unraveling the relationship between technology, creativity, and contemporary life through a diverse range of mediums that allow her to navigate surrealism and venture into the subconscious mind, transcending the extremities of reality.