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 […]