NonCoreProjector is a collective of visual artists, technologists, scientists, and musicians experimenting with physical, biological, conceptual, and political data systems, along with human/AI symbiosis. We explore consequential relationships between spoken and written language and multi-sensory, visceral experience.

In our artworks, everything is connected: from charged political speech to small talk; from the humorous to the deadly serious. The systems we construct to generate visual and auditory content build incrementally, in a Rube Goldberg way: a particular sound uttered in a video is isolated, analyzed, then searched for in a second, related database for a similar image, which then generates the third phase, and so on. We are looking for patterns that link the past to the present. Even the most seemingly neutral speech is infused with history, subjectivity, and consequential ideology. Our works investigate reciprocal relationships between the brain, body, and external world

 We believe in the open dissemination of information, and subsequently source free online resources like WebAPIs, streaming/broadcasting services, newsfeeds, and chatbots to probe our relationship to everyday digital ecosystems. Therefore, our works embrace the unpredictable, entropic flow of misused technology, user comments, and glitches. Our works similarly utilize silence, both as a way to counter the highly processed media we investigate, and to center the unpredictable acoustics within the spaces of our installations. These moments of silence, much how we pay attention when a movie suddenly has no sound, focus our attention on the overlooked evidence of a space’s temporal fluctuations and physical characteristics.

Our group’s members currently include: Rollo Carpenter- the British born Artificial Intelligence scientist and creator of Cleverbot and Jabberwacky. Both are AI systems / programs developed to hold conversations with humans. Jack Colton - an interdisciplinary artist and writer with a focus on new media. Elias Jarzombek - a creative technologist and electronic musician who makes art with code. He is especially interested in developing new ways of making and interacting with sound and music. John O’Connor - a visual artist who makes labor intensive, hand drawn, text-based works with colored pencil on paper.