ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Dominic DeJoseph

SONG: Panopticom (Bright-Side Mix) FROM i/o

Video info:

Understanding the creative dilemma posed by the integration of Artificial Intelligence in the arts, I decided to take a ride down that slippery slope to explore its potential for the creation of novel and experimental works, akin to the Surrealists’ practice of automatic writing, which enabled them to create dreamlike imagery seemingly out of thin air.

Song info:

Panopticom is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

This song is based on an idea I have been working on to initiate the creation of an infinitely expandable accessible data globe: The Panopticom. We are beginning to connect a like-minded group of people who might be able to bring this to life, to allow the world to see itself better and understand more of what’s really going on.

Some of the ideas came from talking to Witness, Forensic Architecture and reading the Bellingcat book. They are all organisations that try and assemble what has happened from all sorts of clues and all sorts of data and put it all together.

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