Source: Graduate Photography Online - 2024 - University of South Wales

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Gareth I. Davies

FAKE BIRD CLOWN

FAKE BIRD CLOWN is a speculative sensorium about a nonhuman protagonist, a Gorilla, and its transformation into a human. An allegory about the menace of a technological being. A hybridised journey that weaves between the real and computational temporalities, offering a mirror to the ecological vulnerabilities posed by humankind’s anthropic relationship to other species, and the planet. Gorillas share 96% of their genome sequence with humans, linking our species to a branching of evolutionary time in which civilisation's existence was fragile and uncertain, a different set of circumstances than today’s catastrophic extractive relationship to nature. The project invites the viewer to question our anthropic entanglement with other species and machines - to construct new ethical perceptions of a more-than-human world.

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‘Mother Gorilla’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales ‘VR Gamer 3D LiDAR Scan’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales ‘Gorilla Trekking Tour’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales ‘VR Gamer’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales ‘Primate Transport Cage’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales ‘Tranquilliser Weapon’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales ‘Zoological Gorilla Enclosure’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales ‘Gorilla 3D LiDAR Scan’ - Gareth I. Davies - University of South Wales