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The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies
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posted on 2024-06-19, 04:51 authored by Robert Andrew, Yulia Brazauskayte, Silvio Carta, Andrew Gall, Interaction Research Studio, Lola Greeno, Benedikt Groß, Stephen Bogner, Herwig Scherabon, Geoff Hinchcliffe, Mitchell Whitelaw, Luke Jaaniste, Jenna Lee, Ian McArthur, Joana Moll, Stanislava Pinchuk, Patrick Pound, Aidan Rowlingson, Judy Watson, Warraba Weatherall, Tali WeinbergThe Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies
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Griffith University Art MuseumStart date
2021-07-01End date
2021-09-18Language
engResearch statement
Managing and presenting data are central concerns in our contemporary lives. The Data Imaginary presents works by artists at the forefront of contemporary practice. In an era of data intensification, bringing these works together facilitates a critical and timely focus giving new insights into data, and its application in our everyday lives. Pound’s creative practice-led research is recognized as a major contributor to the research problem of the algorithmic future. Pound’s work in this major exhibition, offers insight into the way the internet shows us what it thinks we want to see, based on what we have liked before. Many of Pound’s collection-based artworks put the algorithmic logic and its poetic flaws to the test and offer creative tragi-comic reflections on the algorithmic state of things. To 'make' or assemble one collection-based artwork, From Zamfir to Zafir, Pound simply bought exactly what eBay's algorithm suggested in line with his taste profile, his search histories, his past purchases, the contents of his cart, the preferences of his online friends, eBay's logic gates. Pound began by searching for and then purchasing a variety of cassettes of Zamfir's pan flute recordings. After numerous logic gates and missteps taking the collection-based artwork from pan flutes to fluted pans he ended with a reverse camera for a car that happened to be called a Zafir. Pound’s work was the result of the limits of the search engine as a sorting machine. Pound’s work makes trouble for searching and sorting in the digital era, so key to contemporary curatorial studies and art practice alike.Publication classification
JO1 Original Creative Works – Visual Art WorkScale
NTRO MinorExtent
80 daysEditor/Contributor(s)
Moline K, Hayman A, Casey T, Davis BEvent
The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies. Exhibition (2021 : Brisbane, Queensland)Publisher
Griffith University Art Museum QueenslandPlace of publication
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