George Egan

In 2026, the tools shaping creative industries increasingly automate skills, therefore removing the need to learn, to struggle, and to develop the human relationships that give creative work its meaning.

*vinyl-sync* is a parasitic device that attaches to a Technics 1200 turntable and beat-matches your records for you. Nobody asked for this; a turntable has no need to be automated. That is the point. By applying the logic of modern AI tools to a context which resists it, vinyl-sync** exposes the hypocrisy of technology that mistakes convenience for progress and efficiency for culture.

This project sits within a practice concerned with giving physical form to the implications of emerging technologies before the conversation moves on without us.