Event overview
Part of the Digital Arts Computing Masterclass 2018/2019 series which brings together leading artists and DAC students to consider how computation shapes collective life.
Perspective has increasingly afforded the surveying, inspection, registration, regulation and pricing of the earth. In this session, we will present our artistic research which traces a genealogy of carbon and its derivatives. Its conceptualisation, its ‘discovery’, its refining and processing, its financialisation and derivation into predictive systems. We consider the enunciative modality of the computational perspective of machine learning and the resulting patterns of accumulation which form topologies of investment, or divestment, according to valuation in the calculations of finance capital and security. We will investigate these patterns that capture and inscribe upon the macro scale of landscapes propelled by micro pixel averaging systems. We also discuss how these datafied topologies may be apprehended through art-led enquiries, such as with edible Facebook profiles and digital data funerals.
Fraud is a métis duo of artist-researchers (Audrey Samson & Francisco Gallardo), currently a resident of the Somerset House Studios in London. Their backgrounds include computational and software culture, environmental history, postcolonial feminism, cultural studies, disruptive design, performance and space systems engineering. The duo develops forms of art-led enquiry into modes of governmentality and power that flow through physical and cultural spaces. They focus on exploring forms of necropolitics that are embedded in the entanglement of ecology and technical objects, and erasure as a disruptive technology in knowledge production. FRAUD has presented work at such institutions as: the Salon Suisse (the 57th Venice Biennale) (IT); the Whitechapel Gallery (UK); the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (NL); Kunsthal Aarhus (DK); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (DE); Kunsthall Trondheim (NO); le Bâtiment d’art Contemporain (CH); the ArtScience Museum (SG); and CentroCentro (SP).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2019 | 1:00pm |
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