Chloe McFadden

Chloe's PhD research engages how artists can creatively disrupt and engage our faith in prediction in relation to machine learning models. Faith, in the context of this research, encapsulates the magical thinking, narratives of progress and leaps of logic that underpin and enable how we engage and generate knowledge with algorithms. In her practice, she uses Tarot reading, as another method of prediction with its own practices, histories and aesthetics as a disruptive lens for engaging machine learning. Through this, she is interested in how artists can mobilise Tarot via practice-based research to halt, disrupt or make perceivable, the increasing familiarity with the claims made by technologies, and to foreground the ideas predictive machine learning naturalises.