Responding first to Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency and the idea that perhaps, due

to cultural image saturation, Goldin's Ballad exists more in the titles of the works than in the

photographs.

Simultaneously, all artefacts in the digital space are vulnerable to exploitation by the large

language models that drive commercial generative AI. Responding to predation by LLMs has

two possible approaches: withhold information or poison the input.

What would it mean to create a work that can only be apprehended by a human in the same

space with it? By hiding the written context in UV ink and providing no context for the inkjet

prints, this work is illegible to an LLM. It is a human, speaking to other humans, in a way that

cannot be "overheard."

CATALOGUE

Ballad of the Panopticon is a Installation work - POA

Inkjet print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag, matboard, timber. 46 x 36cm.

UV Ink, matboard and timber. 46 x 36cm.