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Second Chance

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posted on 2023-08-24, 04:26 authored by Anne WilsonAnne Wilson
Second Chance

History

Alternative title

Second Chance

Location

Sandbox Studios, Melbourne

Start date

2022-12-03

End date

2022-12-14

Language

eng

Research statement

Background In response to an invitation to exhibit within a curatorial theme ‘how artists use ‘the digital’ to talk about being human’ the researcher exhibited alongside international and nationally based artists. An accompanying catalogue is published containing an essay by Shaun Wilson who is an academic artist, writer and leader in the field of AI and art research. The question the researcher drew from the theme is ‘how do new AI aesthetics retain or evoke a human presence?’ Contribution Two new works perform an aesthetic utilizing ‘the glitch’ and ‘split screen’ forms. While humans train AI to categorise through aggregated data sets, visuals accumulated are then ‘poured’ back through our senses. These 2 new screen based works reflect on this. The digital aesthetic of split screens and glitches confounding a natural physical sense of space and time draw attention to the influence of new technologies and their impact on aesthetics and meaning. These works contribute to the current discourse around AI and humans through a philosophical enquiry that catalyses the works. Significance The exhibition brought together a diverse range of art practices under the umbrella of ‘digital aesthetics’ which is continuously in a state of flux. Research has shown that the sheer exposure of humans to AI and its imagery is training us – the exhibition went some way to encapsulate how human presence is active in unrepeatable works and their diverse mediums even when employing AI as a medium thus exposing both entanglement and resistance.

Publication classification

JC2 Curated Exhibition or Event – Exhibition/Event

Scale

NTRO Minor

Editor/Contributor(s)

beyer S

Event

Digital : How artists use 'the digital' to talk about being human. Exhibition (2022 : Melbourne, Victoria)

Issue

RPI Print, Inc, San Francisco. ISBN: 9798211638501

Publisher

Sandbox Gallery Brunswick

Place of publication

Sandbox Gallery

Source

https://www.suebeyer.com.au/img/DIGITAL_low_res.pdf

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