O-HORIZON
Jessica Montgomery (2023)
What kind of AI might emerge from our collective imaginings?
In a natural ecosystem, the dead leaf litter (also known as ‘O-Horizon’) on the forest floor provides nourishment to emerging life. Similarly, our hopes for how AI might be used may also appear dead, forgotten to commercialisation and pessimistic narratives. What ideas might arise if we were to view the lost voices of our communities as fertile ground for the opaque ‘black-box’ of AI?
O-Horizon will be an interactive forest floor, offering viewers a chance to contribute their own ‘leaf’ - a written hope for how they wish AI were to be if they had a hand in its creation.
O-Horizon will begin with a one-off workshop. An ‘imagination den’ where participants will be inspired to view AI in a different way, and contribute their ideas for the first layer of the O-Horizon forest floor.
From 14 September 2023
JESSICA MONTGOMERY is an interdisciplinary maker, writer and researcher. Currently reading an MA in Digital Culture and Society at KCL, she also holds a BA in Journalism. Her work focuses on a human-centric approach to living with emergent technologies. Her dissertation research takes a virtue ethics approach to Artificial Intelligence Chatbots, specifically the cultivation of empathy and reciprocity. Previously, Jessica worked in edtech supporting coding and design students and later tech entrepreneurs. She is based in London. Website
This project is part of Science Gallery London’s Creative Project Grants programme for King’s students and local 18 - 25s. Recipients receive funding, mentoring and training to develop projects that bring people together to explore big questions relating to social justice, identity, climate, health or technology. Read more about Creative Project Grants here.