Autonomous Fictions: The application of speculative fiction to film and exhibition making to explore alternative economic values in autonomous systems

通过以实践为主导的研究，我的论文将涉及投机小说（另类世界的艺术创作），以询问数字算法和网络基础设施（自治系统）如何重构社会经济关系。我们能否找到一种艺术策略，将投机小说作为一种手段来批判市场经济中自主系统的运作？这些战略如何增进对自主系统如何重新组织财富的生产和分配以适应新的社会经济价值体系的理解？投机小说的艺术表现如何作为“现实生产设备”——通过创造当下的公共话语来帮助实现可选择的未来？策展实践可以从电影中学到什么方法来应用思辨小说？它们的应用如何提出艺术家、策展人和观众之间的新关系？

Through practice-led research, my thesis will engage with speculative-fictions (the artistic creation of alternate-worlds) to interrogate how digital algorithmic and networked-infrastructures (autonomous systems) restructure socio-economic relations.Questions:1. Can we identify artistic strategies that mobilise speculative-fiction as a means to critique the operations of autonomous systems within market economies? How can these strategies increase understandings of how autonomous-systems may re-organise the production and distribution of wealth towards new socio-economic value systems?2. How can the artistic presentation of speculative-fictions act as 'reality producing devices' - helping materialise alternative futures by creating public discourse in the present?3. What approaches to the application of speculative-fiction can curatorial practice learn from film? How can their application propose new relations between artist, curator and audience?