THE HUMAN ALGORITHM

THE AVATAR

  1. Yuval Noah Harari
  2. Max Tegmark

II. WE ARE ALL CYBORGS NOW

  1. Donna Haraway
  2. Nicholas Carr
  3. Susan Sontag
  4. Linda Henkl
  5. Naomi Baron
  6. Sherry Turkle
  7. Tristian Harris

III. THE TECHNO-CAPITALIST PROJECT IS HIJACKING US

  1. Noam Chomsky
  2. Mark Fisher
  3. Douglas Rushkoff
  4. Shoshana Zuboff
  5. Yuval Noah Harari
  6. Henry Kissenger

IV. OFFLINE IS THE NEW LUXURY

  1. Jenny Odell
  2. Kate Crawford
  3. Sherry Turkle
  4. Slavoj Zizek 

V. REALITY APATHY

  1. Esther Perel
  2. Guy Debord
  3. E.O Wilson
  4. Robyn Kimmerer Wall
  5. Rachel Carson

VI. WE DON’T DWELL ON EARTH

  1. Jenny Odell
  2. James Bridle
  3. Byung-Chul Han
  4. James Bridle

VII. REALITY COLLAPSE

  1. Ryan Zicgraff
  2. Max Tegmark
  3. Nick Bostrum
  4. Josh Schrei
  5. Henry Kissenger
  6. Paul Kingsnorth

VIII. ENTANGLEMENT

  1. Donna J. Haraway



















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THE HUMAN ALGORITHM

An immersive fever dream exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on human behavior and cognition and the more than human world.
Still Images from The Human Algorithm.


The Human Algorithm is an immersive fever dream exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on human behavior and cognition and the more than human world. Maximalist in style, it’s crafted with digital and generative AI tools, weaving its narrative through text sampling that mirrors the learned intelligence and borrowed poetics of large language models. Digital approximations of contemporary philosophers, scientists, and theorists appear as interview subjects, their voices and likenesses cloned. A meta-human avatar narrates the piece, delivering broken fragments of humanity’s literary classics. Provocative and confronting, The Human Algorithm interrogates the network of thinking on the existential threat posed by the proliferation of AI.


The 16 minute film is being developed into a multi-channel, immersive video and sound experience, that will premiere in Melbourne in November 2025. 




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Directed, Produced & Edited by Sarah-Jane Woulahan



Written by Sarah-Jane Woulahan & Rose Cook

Avatar performed by Ruby Duncan

Music Composition by Iain Mason
Sound Design & Mix by Hassan Lahrech


MetaHuman & Unreal VFX Artist - AnSheng Li
Unreal VFX Artist - Angelique Jorre St Jorre

Post Production Supervisor & head baker Adeline Teoh
Touch Designer Artist - Mthabisi Mpofu
After Effects VFX Artists - Kit Wijaya & Pengxu Chen
AI video and Image Generation - Sarah-Jane Woulahan
AI Voice Cloning - Nuoxi Yuan & Sarah-Jane Woulahan
Screen Capture -  Adeline Teoh, Sarah-Jane Woulahan, 
Seung Soon Chung, Songyan Guo, Annette Wong


Thanks To

Alan Nyguen
Cinespace
Baris Ulsoy & Daniel Schultheis
Cy Gorman
RMIT Digital Media
RMIT WIL

Created from the support of the Community Broadcast Fund.  

A  SABOTAGE DISTANCE production.

@the.human.algorithm on insta

Contact: Sarah-Jane Woulahan / hello@sarahjanewoulahan.com