In May 1997, Gary Kasparov became the first reigning world chess champion to lose a match to a machine, resigning to the US designed IBM Deep Blue supercomputer during the sixth game in just 19 moves. Following the match, the machine was destroyed and Deep Blue never played again.

The Memory of Deep Blue provides an analogue, photographic record of this landmark victory for artificial intelligence. Composed as a series of photograms and contact sheets, each image retraces a move by the computer (white) as it slowly defeats Kasparov. With every move, Kasparov’s pieces fade to black, resigned to the limitless endurance of a machine designed to outwit him at every turn.

In my practice, I attempt to question the duality between machine and artist, digital and analogue, machine and chess player at a historical point in which the role of the photographer stands poised to be transformed by AI.

Currently exhibited as part of The Doughnut (W)hole pavilion during The Wrong Bienale, 2025/26.