Voiced by an anonymous group of hybrid machines, from some point in the near future, The Signal and the Noise exposes the parallels of computer coding and genetic coding in humans and animals. The work’s narrators look at these creatures as inefficient machines and consider ways of editing and improving their code.

The film draws upon the latest advances in DNA sequencing technology, as well as new ways of controlling behaviour, such as Optogenetics, to propose a future vision of hybrid computing devices that are used to monitor and repair living things, resulting in better performing humans and animals.

Whilst the work appears to be a piece of science fiction, all of the technologies and ideas discussed are based on actual advances and research, and visions of how things might materialise in the future. Made in collaboration with Dr Darren Logan at Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge.

Commissioned by Animate Projects and part of a Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award, produced by Animate Projects. Exhibitions include: Oberhausen Short Film Festival (2017); Quad, Derby; LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery, Dundee; Vivid Projects, Birmingham; Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton; Phoenix, Leicester; Artience Daejeon 2017, Daejeon, South Korea.