Compostcubator 0.4
> Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr with Devon Ward (The Tissue Culture & Art Project) 2019 Courtesy of the artists. Compostcubator 0.4 uses a compost system as incubator – a compostcubator – to provide the necessary heat to maintain a small flask of disembodied mouse cells. An incubator simulates a body. It acts as a […]
Sapling
> Patricia Piccinini 2020 Silicone, fibreglass, hair, clothing, 201cm H x 94 x 46cm. Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Sapling is a variation on Patricia Piccinini’s decade-long work with bio-ethics and hybrid, other-than-human forms. It depicts a plant-like creature, with a face made of foliage, sitting atop the shoulders of […]
Make a Salad
> Alison Knowles 1962 Courtesy of the artist. Alison Knowles’ Fluxus event score Make a Salad from 1962 was performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art as a feature performance at the opening of the 2003 ‘Work Ethics’ exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth. The salad was made for several hundred spectators again at the Wexner […]
Theater of the Object
> Ken Friedman 1956 – 2016 Courtesy of the artist. Theater of the Object presents 18 scores. The first score is Scrub Piece, an action from 1956. The last is A Whispered History, an object from 1994. The artist amplified these scores with drawings, notes, and reflections in 2016. An illustrated book titled Theater of […]
Grapefruit
> Yoko Ono 1964 Courtesy of the Fluxus Foundation. Grapefruit is a collection of event scores, initially written on cards. The book’s title comes from the fact that the grapefruit is a hybrid derived from the sweet orange and the pomelo. The book itself is a hybrid, combining literature with painting, music, and performance. In […]
Laws of Ordered Form
> Anna Ridler 2020 Courtesy of the artist. Laws of Ordered Form is a two part video work and a downloadable handmade dataset created by first taking thousands of photographs of images found in Victorian and Edwardian-era encyclopaedias and then manually reclassifying them. The work calls to attention how echoes of historic taxonomies and beliefs […]
Deep Mediations: A Brief History of Almost Everything
> Memo Akten 2018 Installation View, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. Deep Meditations: A Brief History of Almost Everything in 60 Minutes is a large-scale video and sound installation; a multi-channel, one hour abstract film; a monument that celebrates life, nature, the universe and our subjective experience of […]
Perception Engines
> Tom White 2018 Courtesy of the artist. Perception Engines examines the ability of neural networks to create abstract representations from collections of real-world objects. Given an image, a neural network can assign it to a category such as fan, baseball, or ski mask. This machine learning task is known as classification. To teach a […]
Face Cages
> Zach Blas 2014 – 2016 Courtesy of the artist. Face Cages is a dramatisation of the abstract violence of the biometric diagram. In this installation and performance work, four queer artists, including micha cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Zach Blas, generate biometric diagrams of their faces, which are then fabricated as three-dimensional […]
AdNauseam
> Helen Nissenbaum, Daniel C. Howe & Mushon Zer-Aviv 2017 – present Courtesy of the artists. AdNauseam joins a broader class of technical systems that attempt to serve ethical, political, and expressive ends. In light of the industry’s failure to self-regulate or otherwise address the excesses of network tracking, AdNauseam allows individual users to take […]