Birt Berglund

karl-erik sigbjörn birt berglund (b. 1986 in stockholm, sweden) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in sound and music.
recurring themes in his work include noise, sound, queerness, language, philosophy, conspiracy theories and weird stories.

he is also part of seroconversion and kronofonika

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fragments

Fragments is a collection of eighty text fragments installed in slide frames.
The fragments originate from a text written by a machine learning software that has studied Hollow Earth literature.
The Hollow Earth-theories posits that the Earth is hollow and often theorizes that the inside is habitable and might contain other humanoid creatures.

#3: a dreamer have occurred in the caverns

#10: desire for an evidence ot thing

#18: above is; below

#28: through the holes in its past

#40: stalagmites and stalactites and memory

#65: a central sun at a distances

#71: dangerous philosophers above ground

Fragments can be seen as a discussion of conspiracy theories, research bias, problematic machine learning and algoritms, and ways of how data points are distributed, sorted and connected; by both humans and machines.
Fragments was shown as part of the MFA exhibition Almost Through The Theory Of A Whole.
It was shown together with the work Thought-Forms.