Past

Words

Quote from publication in Engine Failure Newsletter:

“I say this with love, but the [captions] read like an undergrad paper that relied a bit too heavily on Wikipedia as a main source…

The description in her profile is also curious; I’d be interested to hear how she defines what a curator is and does. It’s a highly debated word, [one] that art/museum et al. curators are very protective of. The heart of curatorial work is an individual's perspective that produces unique ideas in whatever format they take form in. For example, curating an exhibit is telling a story through visual art. I just wonder what story is she trying to tell with this account?

The hard part with Alexandra’s art account is that it just doesn’t seem like there is much original thought; it reads like she relies so heavily and often on inaccurate AI-generated words and lazily pairs them with iconic images of famous art. I do believe that she is seeing these works in person and supporting the institutions and curators that exhibit them though, and for that I am grateful.”

Enmeshed Worlds
the unavoidable entanglement of technology and our social order

 Featuring work from Britt Ransom, Alejandro T Acierto, Jon Chambers, and Tiffany Funk, Enmeshed Worlds is a critical examination of how technology affects our social structures and relationships. As society becomes more entangled with artificial intelligence and other forms of technology, this exhibition explores how new media forms are shaping our human experience and existence.

Artists exhibiting work explore this entanglement from several different perspectives. Britt Ransom uses sculpture and installation to investigate human, animal, and environmental relationships created using computational processes. Named for the Brood X cicada who hatched by the billions in 2021, this in-progress series explores our purpose and intention on this planet.

Jon Chambers and Tiffany Funk directly engage with AI technology through their respective works and examine how the corporeal form interacts with technologies that produce rendered moments and data.

Alejandro T. Acierto’s work speaks to the power embedded within and across the Internet and highlights the tension of history’s construction in the era of networked culture by tracing how history is told, the mechanisms of its safekeeping, and the ways historical ephemera reveal themselves online. Drawing on legacies of colonialism found within human relationships to technology and material culture, Acierto reminds us that the power in technology is not democratic.

As we collectively begin to consider the role of AI technologies, the work in this exhibit broadens the lens through which we view technology and invites the viewer to pause and consider where we have allowed technology to intertwine with our daily lives, and we go from here.