CONTENT LEARNING - 2018 - excerpt from 5-channel video instalation

5-channel video installation that looks at how the content we upload and data about what we consume is enabling technology to learn about human pleasure. Does the lack of a body that feels pose a fundamental obstacle to learning about pleasurable experience, or could it be the key to developing entirely new forms of knowledge – knowledge that is totally unknowable to humans. Algorithms start to produce knowledge about human pleasure, but as artificial intelligence has no capacity to experience, what else might be done with that knowledge?