- Michael Drummond: Being Played balances and explores three overarching themes—chess in strategy and form, the climate change crisis, and the concept of “predatory delay”—through the lenses of fashion and Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In order to represent the challenges humanity faces, Drummond uses a game from the film in which a human player—Dr. Frank Poole—competes against an unfairly advantaged opponent—the supercomputer HAL 9000.
