Cailean Finn
Cailean Finn
Bio: Cailean Finn (b. 1997) is a media artist, creative technologist, and researcher from Waterford, Ireland. His work examines our relationship with machines through dialogue with computational tools. His practice is shaped by computational histories and emerging digital cultures, involving a mix of hardware and software based practices--ranging from Creative Coding and Electronics, to Game/Web Design and Artificial Intelligence. Currently, his work is focused on Artificial Life and the aesthetics of behaviour in Agentic systems.
Artwork Description and Title of Work: Power Creep
Power Creep is a sculptural work that examines the relationship between Ireland’s energy landscapes and expanding demands of digital infrastructure driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence. Borrowed from gaming culture, the term power creep describes the gradual escalation of power within a system, where continual growth is required to maintain relevance. In this work, it reflects the exponential expansion of computational infrastructure, and its increasing consumption of energy, water, labour, and land within an Irish context.
Fragmented online digital vernacular is processed using a LLM; with its generated output distributing commands to an automated typewriter. The typewriter acts as both an interface and historical artefact within the computational stack; materialising the resource-intensive infrastructures obscured through the metaphor of the “cloud”. Power Creep reflects on the reconfiguration of the Irish landscape through the very technologies that consume it, asking who really benefits from this digital infrastructure? and what finite costs underpin its exponential ‘creep’?
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