An Ecology of Worries

Cailtin & Misha

An Ecology of Worries consists of several animated characters speaking worries that were synthesized using various machine learning algorithms. The artist duo Caitlin & Misha trained these systems using people’s actual recorded worries they’ve been collecting since 2016. The projects explores whether a machine should be taught to worry for us.

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Caitlin & Misha create artworks that engage ideas about sharing communities, livable ecologies, and the transmutation of waste. They embrace the canon of media archeology, employing drawing, design, and sculptural techniques within a contemporary framework of new media and participatory installation. They are recipients of a NEFA Creative City Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Immersive Scholar Residency, were residents at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark, and exhibited at such venues as the Science Gallery (London), EFA Project Space (NYC), the New Museum’s Ideas City Festival (NYC), Boston Cyberarts (Boston), Montserrat College of Art (Beverley, MA), Machine Project (Los Angeles), the Torrance Art Museum in (Los Angeles), the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), Artspace (New Haven, CT), and Sign,CIAT (Berlin). Caitlin Foley (b. Schenectady, NY USA) is Visiting Lecturer and Misha Rabinovich (b. Moscow, Russia) is an Assistant Professor at UMass Lowell. They live in the Boston area of Massachusetts, USA.