The Landscape of Intelligence - Tribute to Ada Lovelace

The Landscape of Intelligence is a multi-media exhibit based on a limited-edition hand-made artist book with sound and video, and artwork that pays tribute to computer pioneer Ada Lovelace.  

Ada not only wrote the world’s first computer program but had an extraordinary vision for its potential. Inspired by Babbage's Analytical Engine Ada recognised that data could represent other things besides number, such as musical notes, letters or symbols.

Nearly 200 hundred years ago, and a century before the invention of the computer, Ada explicitly describes a machine that could compose music.

The Landscape of Intelligence binds together multi-layered prints based on drawings of machinery, punch cards, neural networks and quotes from Ada and her mother Annabella Byron, using etching, screen-printing, moving imagery, music and spoken word from actors animating Ada, Annabella Byron, Ada’s tutor and family acquaintances.