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> The museum is… not so much the space for the representation of art history as a machine to produce and stage the new art of today—in other words, to produce "today” as such. In this sense, the museum produces, for the first time, the effect of presence, of looking alive.<br><spanclass='quotee'>— Boris Groys, On The New</span>
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During my [2020 Synthetic Media residency](/blog/welcoming-new-residents-synthetic-media/) at Thoughtworks Arts I began developing a new work *Birds of the British Empire* that explores the linkages between historical, colonial archives and the training sets used in machine learning.
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During my [2020 Synthetic Media residency](/blog/welcoming-new-residents-synthetic-media/) at ThoughtWorks Arts I began developing a new work *Birds of the British Empire* that explores the linkages between historical, colonial archives and the training sets used in machine learning.
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Yet in the case of CI, we take a further step since we are not dealing with fixed media forms. A closer analogy would be to imagine a film still in the editing room being streamed directly to a movie theater. As the edits change so does what is seen in the theater. In terms of a gallery-based artwork this process is not limited to screen-based work. We can envision installation work that receives updates, files, videos, coordinates, audio, etc.
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## A Sample Repo
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Although *Birds of the British Empire* is still in development, for this blog post we have created a sample [GitHub repo](https://github.com/anupriyajo/continous-arts) that demonstrates the use of GitHub Actions. The repo can be understood as a framework for any art project that runs in the cloud, yet is exhibited in a gallery. In other words the ‘work’ is computationally based in the Cloud, and physically manifested in the gallery.
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Although *Birds of the British Empire* is still in development, for this blog post we have created a sample [GitHub repo](https://github.com/anupriyajo/continuous-arts) that demonstrates the use of GitHub Actions. The repo can be understood as a framework for any art project that runs in the cloud, yet is exhibited in a gallery. In other words the ‘work’ is computationally based in the Cloud, and physically manifested in the gallery.
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In our demo we have a project that takes online images of protest banners and uses a machine learning algorithm to isolate what is written on them, converting them into machine-readable text. In the gallery there would be an LED message board that receives this text and displays it.
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Perhaps one day we will find an exhibition curated through a monorepo with works that synchronize with one another and share metadata. Boris Groys describes the museum as “a machine to produce and stage the new art of today”. I would argue that separating the production from the staging is advantageous to both artists and galleries, bringing us closer to systems shows what the art of today is truely capable of.
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Special thanks to [Ellen Pearlman](/bio/ellen-pearlman/), [Andrew McWilliams](/bio/andrew-mcwilliams/), [Rahul De](/profiles/rahul-de), [Anupriya Johari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anupriyajo/?originalSubdomain=uk), [Carlos Gabriel Gavidia Calderon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgavidia/?originalSubdomain=uk) and [Janani Venugopalan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janani-venugopalan-7197103a/) for contributing to the development of this project.
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Special thanks to [Ellen Pearlman](/bio/ellen-pearlman/), [Andrew McWilliams](/bio/andrew-mcwilliams/), [Rahul De](https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/rahul-de), [Anupriya Johari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anupriyajo/), [Carlos Gabriel Gavidia Calderon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgavidia/?originalSubdomain=uk) and [Janani Venugopalan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janani-venugopalan-7197103a/) for contributing to the development of this project.
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