People, Objects, and Algorithms: a Participatory Drawing Project
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posted on 2024-06-05, 07:26 authored by Simon GrennanSimon Grennan, I Jetmar, Katie LeeKatie LeePeople, Objects, and Algorithms: a Participatory Drawing Project
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FProject GalleryStart date
2021-12-07End date
2022-01-07Language
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Background Algorithms play an influential role in shaping contemporary life at every scale - from directing financial systems to curating our digital content and, increasingly, guiding our everyday beliefs and behaviours. Hence algorithmic systems have also become an important object of study in themselves. Algorithmic or rule-based methods in art have been used to generate new forms while also posing questions concerning authorship, agency, creativity, and subjectivity itself. Most of this practice however has confined itself to purely abstract idioms which do not adequately reflect the ways in which algorithmic systems are integrated into our everyday lives. Contribution In this drawing-based project we cultivated an underexplored area of rule-based art, namely how such systems can mediate our engagement with the manifest world – with objects, people, and places. Working on site, we devised algorithmic drawing processes designed to augment observation and representation, interrupt habituated working methods and encourage collaboration and audience participation. The arts-based nature of the approach allowed us and our audience-participants to demystify and dis-embed algorithms from their predominantly digital realm and play with them in tangible, embodied ways. Significance The project piloted the first iteration of what will become an increasingly relevant field of research in the visual arts. The on-going project also seeks to develop new audiences and deepen connections with regional Australia. This first residency and exhibition was held at the FProject Art Space, Warrnambool, a central cultural hub for the arts in Southwestern Victoria. While exhibition attendance was affected by the Covid pandemic, the project attracted upwards of 900 visitors and was featured in local press coverage. It also generated opportunities to work and connect with local institutions and emerging artists in Warrnambool.Publication classification
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