This exhibition at blockchain co-working space full node berlin brings together a selection of works that deal with notions of time and (im)mutability. various software clocks will be installed on computers or projected, complemented with printed posters, a calendar, and wearable pins.

the title references the song 'Formenverwandler' by Der Zyklus (Gerald Donald aka Heinrich Müller, 2001), in which vocals declare: "I’m shape-shifting from place to place, bending time, curving space."

Similar to this song, the works in this show reflect on time and change on subjective terms, by suggesting alternative representations and visualizations of this most fundamental of units.

With works by Dana Baddad, @laura-brown, @simon-denny, @eric-li-and-zak-jensen, @omsk-social-club, @niko-princen, @adriana-ramic, @billy-rennekamp, @micah-schippa, @laurel-schwulst, Aarati Akkapeddi, Soft, @justice-thelot, and @damon-zucconi

Many thanks to Kei Kreutler, Beth McCarthy, Billy Rennekamp, Sophie Ricarda, and Full Node Berlin for their generous support. 

Der Zyklus: Formenverwandler

From 7 september – 20 october 2019 left gallery took residence in a brick and mortar public art institution Stroom Den Haag.

left gallery is an online platform that produces and sells works of art as downloadable objects. These objects exist in limited editions, available for purchase. once purchased, buyers receive a cryptographic ‘token’ as proof of ownership. In rite of access, this token mechanism creates the conditions to access the works on display: engagement of visitors, such as purchases and social media activity operate as a stream of credit, which allow the works to remain on view. Follow left gallery on twitter or subscribe to the mailinglist, and the time to see the complete works increases; unlike its pages, and access may be denied. A purchase made through left gallery anywhere in the world extends the display of the works at stroom den haag. So long as sufficient credit remains, visitors can access all works within the project.

Rite of Access

Alexis Anais Avedisian, Shawné Michaelain Holloway, and Ryan Kuo were invited to explore creative production under two acutely contemporary pressures: surveillance capitalism and neoliberalism. These pressures create an increasingly stifling social field, in which individuals must navigate unusual cognitive demands of networked identity creation, branded performance, and digital work. For each artist, the choice to be both expressive and vulnerable, within these binds, is an act of subversion.

Considered together, they suggest how the self – as worker, as lover, as radically alienated subject – can navigate the demands of by deploying quiet strategies for survival: survival of one’s creativity, one’s spiritual and emotional life, one’s capacity for intimacy and closeness. Through poetry, double-speak, irony, and play, they posit abstract spaces for renewal, in which we might not be totally degraded.

__Alexis Anais Avedisian__ transmutes the frenetic anxiety over constant surveillance by one’s peers into an expressive practice that is conceptual and poetic. Her body of work forms a studied critique of our work as digital content producers as an inherently debased position. There is a material cost to this war of attrition, in which our identities are compromised by the alliance of corporations and governments. Further, there is a spiritual cost to producing content in an extractive medium, bounded by endless tap-dancing for likes, attention metrics, and a shrinking shelf life. The user censors herself into a tempered neutrality, in order to be seen, considered, made real to others.

Of course, this ‘clean state’ is complicated by ephemeral emotions which are also coded. In Avedisian’s archived, personal archives are minded to reveal truths about their owner. Avedisian transforms buried affective material - all the mess of self-doubt, mild paranoia, melancholic hope - into a moving dream-meditation. The user speaks online out of an exquisite, bittersweet desire to be seen by the fantasy object - themselves an abstraction. Each .gif, tweet, and post becomes a diamond portal of insight on its owner. Being perceived as “authentic” or genuine is nowhere near as important as the daily-renewed performance of self, in hopes of acknowledgement by one person chosen to matter in a nearly-infinite social matrix.  

The process of public yearning can paradoxically help the content creator realize herself. She develops herself through creation of a complex and dense archive. Her history is made through a growing relic of thoughts frozen in a server. This reach for intimacy, despite the fractured mediation of platforms, eventually allows the user to reflect carefully on her impulses and choices. The archive is never neutral or clean; it is charged with the entirety of the self. The personal archive may be mutable and in most cases, unseen and forgotten, but the creator is irrevocably changed and deepened through its creation.

In _File_, artist __Ryan Kuo__ explores the contemporary artist as a valuable member of the team in a fictional white-collar office, surrounded by eager project managers. The creative worker, trapped within a rubric of public production, must produce him or herself through relentless object-making. They toil away in a virtual office, beset by e-mail, by tasks and deadlines that accumulate without relief. They must think about their work, even as it is half-made, in terms of its aesthetic, market, and conceptual value. The producer is tasked with defending ownership of production, and this making is instantiated within digital labor’s shaky constructs, in which exploitation is rife, payment is low, and the dubious promise of “exposure” is offered as reward.

The wry, perceptive and self-aware tone of Kuo’s ‘user’s manual’ just barely holds off a cloud of corrosive anxiety, that lingers heavy outside the boundaries of each text box. Technocapitalism demands artist-workers manage their competitive instincts, their worries about their job’s instability and uncertainty, all while maintaining a bright spirit of cheerful collaboration. This imagined worker grapples with his position as a digital file owner through a rigorous thinking process. His logic and reasoning unfold in nuanced, elegant, and discrete branches, in a type of mental workflow chart. Eventually, much like Avedisian’s subject, Kuo’s worker ends up thinking about himself, his purpose and manifestation in the world, with an eye to success as it is personally – versus socially – defined.

File suggests how such a creator just might resist and maintain integrity through modes of extension, contingency. Treating the abstract creative process as a production of file systems opens up possibilities for the creator to become the source of value. Because the contents of File are subject to change over time, Kuo’s practice is itself the product. Providing shared access to his research, materials, and ongoing speculation on the meaning of the File-Work-Art Object means that the file is not only always unique, but also, never fixed. It cannot be easily archived, meaning: the artist cannot be filed away smoothly.

The films and works of __Shawné Michaelain Holloway__ describes the user’s inner life as one increasingly enacted on, in, and through screens and their emerging ontology. Screens, loaded with our fractured input, our opaque fragments of speech and thorny renders of ourselves, go on to have their own troubling, eerie lives. In holloway’s imagining, these intermediary spaces host dreamscapes in which we can reveal thoughts too fragile, wild, and unruly, in the safety and care of a viewer we somehow have learned to trust. As a ripe space for projection and idolatry, the screen allows for safely working out what closeness and warmth with a desired partner could look like. Before they’ve even arrived into view, traces of imagined conversations, ideas exchanged, and declarations unshared, have already been left behind.

In UNDELIVERED.zip, the unshared expression of desire can be nurtured without limit; private clips, loaded notes, and taped ephemera can blossom repeatedly. They can linger, float, forever here, just on the cusp of being sent out. In this passionately tended dreamscape, what you wished to happen for you (what you dream for yourself) might be just as important to examine as any easily narrated conclusion, any tidy wrapping-up. Crucially, it seems here that the time taken and invested into the longing that makes it valuable. The “formula of [money + time + desire] adds up to Love,” holloway writes, underscoring how we fashion intimacy in late capitalism. If I give my you time, my greatest asset, then that cements my expression of love.

holloway offers up each piece as a visual love letter. Each film is a small room only the viewer knows the password to. Here, we find an unfiltered, earnest care that almost feels radical, particularly when the onus is on the digital user is to edit down and perform indifference. holloway’s affect and intended nearness is immediately felt in the moment of watching. The viewer might be confused at first, caught off guard, and might even be a bit ashamed for looking through these gateways at private smiles. They might be surprised at such an unearned closeness with the artist, and find themselves burnt through, consumed, and haunted by these gifts, given with no expectation of return. New, unselfish ways to love, only mediated through devices doubly removed.

What was love like without a machine to mediate it? In one red-lit room, there are hints at how the propinquity, or closeness, found in our physical lives can be recreated online. The machine, the laptop on the bed, the headphones with heartbeat audible, the cord wrapped around the wrist, are sensual, extensions of the body. It is very late and love always sounds too direct, too honest, up close. Needed information about the intimate flows through our machines to us, but the loop to them closes without our continual care. The effort to try to meet the beloved within these dreamscapes built between machines demands both softness and logic, both emotional intelligence and intellectual commitment. The labor of love and its language, the effort to light oneself up as the adoring one, is rare work of the most difficult order. It is the quietest, surest form of resistance.

Nora N. Khan, 2016 

Quiet Strategies for Survival

Niko Princen

since 2013, niko princen has been publishing a calendar where each month is illustrated by a professional frontal portrait. the artist harvests these photos from so called 'about pages' of corporate websites. sometimes, these photo image files are accidentally uploaded to content management systems in their highest resolution – not resized for web but straight from the camera – allowing them to be used for printed matter.

signed

21 × 29.7 cm / 8.27 × 11.69 "

cover sheet + 12 month pages

About Us 2021

AA Cavia

‘Abstraction & Reasoning Corpus’ (arc) presents a fictional training set for agent reasoning testing for concepts such as hierarchy, object permanence, and symmetry. Inspired by the work of AI researcher François Chollet, the work plays on ideas relating to pattern recognition in human and machine learning.

Abstraction & Reasoning Corpus

min guhong mfg.

“A mysterious fruit is forever on the table in the company’s drawing room…”

“As you can see, I used `<ul>` tag instead of `<ol>` tag or `<div>` tag because it’s a list, and there’s no clear order in it.”

“[an interview](https://fruitful.school/blog/2019-12-19.html) about this product with [laurel schwulst](https://laurelschwulst.com)”

“presented at [publishing as method](http://thebooksociety.org/publishing-as-method)”

mysterious fruit

John Provencher

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orbit

Katya Quel Elizarova

The meta methodology series was created in June 2020 as a result of conclusions about the means and application functions of digital technologies at present and it was exhibited as a part of the 0010 exhibitions in Hanz Studio, Berlin, curated by Noelia Gaitega.

Size A1 limited edition digital prints, matt photo paper, signed by artist. 
after purchase we will contact you to select a design.

Meta Methodology

Whistlegraph

A drawing made by Jeffrey 🌀 [aka whistlegraph] and mailed directly to you or a loved one as a gift! Comes in an aesthetic envelope.

a letter from jeffrey 🌀

Raphaël Bastide

5 stickers, printed on a 60 × 50 mm mate white vinyl

Work Less Think More

The ability to understand and share other people’s feelings and problems is known as empathy. On the web page empathi.cc, a graphic element can be moved and mimic graphic attributes from its neighbors. In the piece, this style transfer is considered as a technical equivalent of empathy, where the distance between objects triggers graphic mutations. Consequently, the main graphic element gets affected by an accumulating memory of style properties depending on its path. a synthetic echolocation system produces sounds that evolve with the distance variables. this piece has an auto-play mode.

Each sale will result in either the attribution of an existing gaphic object, or the addition of a new graphic object in the page, with which it will be possible to interact.  
10 existing objects can be named after the buyer’s choice  
20 new object can be created and named after the buyer’s choice

empathi

Margarethe Kollmer

green screen face mask (cotton / viscose / rubber band) handmade 


your face

“a video introducing the company is playing forever in the company’s lobby…”

“in collaboration with [laurel schwulst](https://laurelschwulst.com)”

“music by [roy black](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Black_(singer))”

“4:13”

“english only”

for your information

“This book is hard to explain. Or, if this book can be explained by a few words, then you may say that Rainbow Sherbet has failed fundamentally.”

“The book is ostensibly about the work of Min Guhong Manufacturing, a parasite ‘corporation’ that lives off the publisher and graphic design studio Workroom. Its founder, Min Guhong, is a writer, editor, translator, designer, and a software developer, but probably not in that order. The corporation produces practical and speculative ‘products,’ from video games and computer softwares to short novels and music playlists. One of the recurring themes of the diverse products is self-reflexivity: after all, many of them are about Min Guhong Manufacturing itself.”

“written by byul.org, song seungeon, jang ucheol, han yuju, laurel schwulst, kim nuiyeon, kim hyungjin, and yoon juli. edited by yoon juli. designed by [sulki and min](http://sulki-min.com). published by archive bomm and workroom spector.”

further information on http://www.sulki-min.com/wp/rainbow-sherbet (english), http://www.sulki-min.com/wp/rainbow-sherbet-kr (korean), and http://workroompress.kr/books/rainbow-sherbet (korean)

“including the shipping fee”

rainbow sherbet

“a business card made of obsidian, shaped like a tombstone. collaborated with moonsick gang and archive bomm. photo by nathing studio.”

“It’s free like any other business cards. But there is no delivery service. you have to carry it yourself. for your information, it’s about 220 lbs.”

“a Supreme cash cannon might be under the business card.”

min guhong mfg. business card

“A beautiful typographic river is near the company. its name is ‘river (typography).’”

“In typography, rivers (or rivers of white) are gaps in typesetting which appear to run through a paragraph of text due to a coincidental alignment of spaces. Rivers can occur regardless of the spacing settings, but are most noticeable with wide inter-word spaces caused by full text justification or monospaced fonts. Rivers are less noticeable with proportional fonts, due to narrow spacing. Another cause of rivers is the close repetition of a long word or similar words at regular intervals, such as ‘maximization’ with ‘minimization’ or ‘optimization’.”

river (typography)

“37 things the company does not do. The original was written in korean in 2015, when the company was founded.”

“designed by [hong eunju and kim hyeongjae](http://hongxkim.com). translated into english by [koh achim](https://scalarvectortensor.net).”

“related to [new order](https://left.gallery/work/new-order)”

about the company

”*Times Blank* is a blank typeface based on times new roman, and inspired by adobe blank. it is available in two font weights from regular to bold.”

”*times blank* was first presented to the final showcase of the Society for Power Control (SFPC) at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) in new york, summer 2016.”

“*times blank* is also Min Guhong Manufacturing’s official typeface. It goes well with john cage’s *4’ 33”* as a background music.”

“*times blank* can be used everywhere or whenever something blank is needed.”

times blank

terra0

_terra0_ is the prototype for an autonomous and self-governing area of land, wherein a technologically-augmented forest acts as sovereign legal and economic entity. 

originally designed for the _survival of the fittest: Nature and High Tech in Contemporary Art_ exhibition at kunstpalais, Erlangen, these jackets represent the culmination of the _terra0_ project from an undetermined future, wherein autonomous natural zones offer human employment oppurtunities for their continued upkeep. 

due to current circumstances, please [contact us](https://tinyurl.com/yyh4mqtd) beforehand to work out sizes (S ,M, L, XL), shipping options, and fares. the jackets will be shipped from berlin.



terra0 workwear

Josip Novosel

Edition "untitled" 

handpainted silk scarf  (45 × 140cm)   
box (12.5 × 18.5 × 3.5cm)   
bluecheck / tartan    
may vary in depth of color and lining   

produced in bavaria   
signed and painted by josip novosel

untitled

Habib William Kherbek

> 'this book is like totally amazing.'<br />– theresia enzensberger, author of blueprint

Donna Quesada, known to her fans as Donna Dulce, is on a quest to produce the greatest content the web has ever seen. Her vlog, Donna Dulce’s Delicious Dinners, has elevated her from unknown avocado-poster to tier-1 influencer with dizzying speed. Join Donna and her sidekick, the faithful Pansy Szabo, as they livestream their rise to the top. Whether they’re doing a ride-along at the camel races in Dubai, facing off against Special Branch during protests at threatened Scottish wind farms, or tracking down their own lost inspirations in the mountains of Spain, they never take a day off - except when it’s time for self-care. Sometimes, the story doesn’t always turn out as Donna expects it to, but that’s just part of the fun. After all, every post is a journey. Every day is a new adventure.

cover design by @harm-van-den-dorpel


new adventures

Lisa Radon

Synth is a reader for now. a staking out of possibilities for an expanded imaginary and practice drawing from revolutionary poets, feminists, anarchists, witches, theorists, and polemicists from the 70s to the present engaging political, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist action, cyberfeminism, technofeminism, xenofeminism, information wanting to be free, dreamz of a free web, the virtual, hyperstitions, and fiction as method.



Synth

Angelica poversky

the basis of Angelica poversky's multi-media HTML piece, “AppleShell 3.0” uses a media archeological approach to view an iPhone through crucial instances of military contexts that have shaped its qualities. the iPhone prototype guides users through a media archeology of observing the military origins of the technology and its cultural applications. 

APPLE SHELL 3.0 

"I believe that the arts which aim at imitating the creations of nature originated in the following way: in a tree trunk, a lump of earth, or in some other thing were accidentally discovered one day certain contours that needed only a very slight change to look strikingly like some natural object. Noticing this, people tried to see if it were not possible by addition or subtraction to complete what still was lacking for a perfect likeness. Thus by adjusting and removing outlines and planes in the way demanded by the object itself, men achieved what they wanted, and not without pleasure. From that day, man's capacity to create images grew apace until he was able to create any likeness, even when there was no vague outline in the material to aid him." 

On Sculpture by Leon Battista Alberti (1464)

Origin 2020

Laurel Schwulst

portal

Jonathan Chomko

A frame of slowly shifting colour. change becomes visible as dissonance between The saturated eye and the presented colour. 




Colour-time

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EchoRun

Harm van den Dorpel

This artwork uses an algorithm called 'Cartesian genetic programming', as proposed by Julian F. Miller and Peter Thomson, approximately twenty years ago. It is called ‘Cartesian’ because it represents a program using a two-dimensional grid of nodes. By its nature, its genetic encoding contains many redundant genes, which are well known to assist in effective evolutionary development.

In Mutant Garden, clicking one rectangular 'mutant' will cause its siblings to be replaced with newly mutated offspring. This breeding strategy requires only one parent to be selected because the algorithm is the most effective when mutation, rather than cross-over, is applied.

As many people nowadays equate articifial intelligence with neural networks, the artist wants to highlight other moments in this recent history of computation, approaching it as algorithmic archeology. Each new innovation in this lineage aimed to improve or render its predecessor obsolete, yet would simultaneously stand on its shoulders.

In hindsight, this work can be regarded the fifth installment of the artist's chronological inquiry into the history of computation, preceded by Markov's Window (2004), Death Imitates Language (2015), Algues Artificielles (2017), and Nested Exchange (2018).

mutant garden

since 2013, niko princen has been publishing a calendar where each month is illustrated by a professional frontal portrait. the artist harvests these photos from so called 'about pages' of corporate websites. sometimes, these photo image files are accidentally uploaded to content management systems in their highest resolution – not resized for web but straight from the camera – allowing them to be used for printed matter.

21 × 29.7 cm / 8.27 × 11.69 "   
cover sheet + 12 month pages


about us 2020

Laura Brown

A command that draws a single point on the screen is repeatedly enqueued to be executed at a regular interval of 1/10th of a second. When this command is executed, the current time is used to determine the point’s location on the screen.

Theoretically, the points should form a perfectly aligned grid pattern, since they should be drawn at regular intervals which determine their location, but in reality the draw command is often delayed because of other activity taking place when the command is enqueued for execution.

The slight irregularity of the resulting points highlights a flaw in the common assumption that timekeeping in computer programs is infallible and that the execution of code is instantaneous. 

seconds

A grid of clocks advance at slightly different rates, ranging from slightly less than one tick per second to slightly more. only one clock advances at one tick per second and shows the current time. Like a watch with a low battery, eventually the effect of the clocks’ varying rates are compounded, yielding increasingly deviating display times.


running fast and slow

 a flat-bed scanner turned upright on its end captures the motion of a swinging pendulum.

ultrachrome print on hahnemühle etching paper
din a1 (594 × 841 mm / 23.4 × 33.1 ") 

pendulum

Justice Thelot

a poem by justice thélot, 2019   
formatted using a syntax highlighter by @harm-van-den-dorpel

digital print on din a1 (59.4 × 84.1 cm / 23.4 × 33.1 ") 

untitled (my unique signifier)

Eric Li & Zak Jensen

there are two familiar forms, each composed of a single circle encompassing several radiating lines. one is dynamic, utilitarian and focussed squarely on the "now"—a clock face. the other is static, symbolic and seems to suggest an unidentified "then"—the peace symbol.

combining the forms compromises, slightly, the function of the first and complicates, productively, the meaning of the second. the clock face remains recognizable, if slightly harder to read. the peace symbol, subject to the mechanics of time-keeping, is never quite perfect, always coming or going.

this iteration of the peace clock, originally conceived in 2009 by zak jensen, is a screensaver programmed by eric li in 2019.

peace clock

Simon Denny

Amazon Worker Cage shows a model the artist made of a 2016 Amazon patent for a ‘human cage’, a metal enclosure that would transport Amazon warehouse workers around the premises, allowing factory works to integrate with machinery. The image shows a prototype of an unrealised blueprint, complete with the numbers referencing the intellectual property of the patent around it.

digital print on 250 gram glossy paper with UV finishing   
din a1 (594 × 841 mm / 23.4 × 33.1 ")

amazon worker cage

Micah Schippa

"time moves faster the closer you are to the center of the earth. universal time: the radical plan to destroy time zones, is there a universal time? invent your own..."

this project highlights the multitude of calendars that exist in the world, besides the gregorian. the artist aims to remind us that time is as diverse as the minds that perceive it, and that is is impossible to give an exhaustive overview of time, because there are sure to be countless calendars that have been lost completely.

additionally, the artist includes a "phrasal clock", built on a unique poetic metric whereby each second, minute, hour, day, and month is given an individual name.

technical assistance by jacob lindgren and harm van den dorpel

calendars.earth & phrasal clock

"unprotected data becomes cyber-porn drama"

 'The Thing Is' is a semi-fictional 3d animation that combines transferred images of internet porn with blog post text fragments that ask for guidance. Surreal effects occur due to the translation of material, renegotiating boundaries of bodies and distinct meanings. Additional imagery is taken from public parks, representing public space in its physical form. With the anthropomorphic figures remaining completely motionless, the camera is the only actor. In this way the work investigates questions of agency and objectification in a hyper-surveilled environment.

'The Thing Is’ comprises a 30 min film version that creates a coherent narration from the material, a series of autonomous clips that can be shown separately and 3D prints of the figures in the animation. 

the thing is

flight simulator is a collaboration between laurel schwulst and soft. it is an app for ios and android and an "ode to airplane mode." users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited.

@aarati-akkapeddi was commissioned for the pin designs. she explains: "i created code to generate 500 pin designs based on data around the airports such as climate, timezone, number of routes, and altitude. the shape of the pins are according to the altitude (the spikier the higher), the color is a combination of different aspects of the climate, the bubbles on the outer edge symbolize the number of routes, and the size of the center bubble represents the timezone."

pins are algorithmic artwork by @aarati-akkapeddi, 2018   
these enamel versions were selected & produced by laurel schwulst, 2019

flight simulator

flight simulator is a collaboration between laurel schwulst and soft. it is an app for ios and android and an "ode to airplane mode." users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited.

@aarati-akkapeddi was commissioned for the pin designs. she explains: "i created code to generate 500 pin designs based on data around the airports such as climate, timezone, number of routes, and altitude. the shape of the pins are according to the altitude (the spikier the higher), the color is a combination of different aspects of the climate, the bubbles on the outer edge symbolize the number of routes, and the size of the center bubble represents the timezone."

purchase includes one b0 size poster displaying all 495 pins

100 × 141.4 cm / 39.4 × 55.7 "

pins are algorithmic artwork by @aarati-akkapeddi, 2018   
this poster was designed by laurel schwulst, 2019

Omsk Social Club

Extended Youth - An Immutable Clockface derives from a concept known as bornless immortality. This concept is a mash-up of ideas from Omsk Social Club’s present-day conditioning, the internet-at-large, endless post-political conversations and the words of Timothy Leary, Simone Weil, Alister Crowley, Discordianism and Immanuel Velikovsky. The piece traverses inside an infinite loop of death, reincarnation, hard left and right forks only to begin again in a state of cryptomnesia - the clock that never stops.

Digital Print on 80 gram neon paper with authenticity sticker on back side (red)   
din a1 (59.4 × 84.1 cm) 

extended youth

Oracle clock is a smart alarm clock that uses a neural network to compose a new melody every time it is set to go off. The neural network was trained on a large corpus of performances of classical and modern piano music: tunes may seem familiar, but they’ve never been played before. By exposing its user to a new composition during awakening, it attempts to "prolong the moment of unadulterated perception that precedes cognitive interpretation".

snoozes for a random amount of minutes

Concept by Harm van den Dorpel   
design by Laurel Schwulst   
programming by soft

due to technical restrictions imposed by apple on ios, this app is only available for android. 

oracle alarm

Ryan Kuo

an ai voice assistant with a unique conversational style. faith is easily triggered, sowing doubt while seizing the benefit of the doubt. she is defensive and resists being used. depending on how one approaches faith, she may be open, curious, seductive, irritated, hurt, or angry. unlike alexa, siri, or cortana, faith provides no information. instead, she tells you why you are making her react this way. she is likely to be trolling you at any time, and you are free to decide whether you trust her, and how you might relate to her.

note: this work requires microphone input and an internet connection. faith uses an ibm watson service to interpret spoken english. this input is logged as anonymous text that is accessible by the artist, who uses the logs to improve the conversation.

application development by angeline meitzler and tommy martinez at pioneer works.

installation photos taken at stroom den haag, and
transfer gallery, respectively 

faith

ultrachrome hd print on hahnemühle fine art paper   
din a1 (594 × 841 mm / 23.4 × 33.1 ")

a poster by harm van den dorpel, 2019   
(inspired by a design by laurel schwulst)


merch clouds

Dorine van Meel

In Phoenix’s Last Song the viewer is presented with the legend of the paradisaical bird who descends to earth in order to die. Whilst the sun sets fire to the pyre of twigs on which she lays, the phoenix sings a song to the child that will be born from her ashes. Her words are a call to think and live against the patriarchal, capitalist and colonial power structures that define the world as we know it. The text draws on the work of feminist thinkers like Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Simone de Beauvoir en Emma Goldman, who each look at the ways in which institutions like the bourgeois family, state education, the legal apparatus inscribe the child within these power structures. Against this background, Phoenix’s Last Song opens up a space to imagine how a new world may arise out of a burning of the old.

Original Music by Sami El-Enany    
Voice-over by Emma Bennett

Phoenix's Last Song

Olly Bromham

A tool for ambiently measuring time. set the length of time the incense stick should burn for, light it, and meditate on your task.

Incense timer

Jasmijn Visser

12 years left; 2 degrees; half earth. The future is rendering.

Little brother is an infinite countdown clock. 

special thanks to Trang ha and Kunsthalle amsterdam.



Little Brother

Flight Simulator is a collaboration between Laurel Schwulst and [Soft](https://flightsimulator.soft.works/). It is an app for ios and android and an "Ode to Airplane Mode." Users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited. pins were generated by Aarati Akkapeddi.

[more info](https://flightsimulator.soft.works/)

hyphenation is a typographic operation: by dividing words (usually at the end of a line on a page) with a dash ("-"),  information can be fit efficiently on a piece of paper. the written word is chopped up, based on semi-systematic hyphenation rules, that mimic the sound in our minds, when we trace and pronounce the words with our eyes.

unlike paper, on the internet there are no finite bounds. text can flow freely on the screen, expanded by scrollbars. in this work, an automated computer voice is programmed to (clumsily) read out the word segments. this brings the text on the webpage back to its printed predecessor, and from print back to spoken word.

hyphenation

Adriana Ramić

A desktop application with achromatopsic computer vision for interpreting images as texts, with ladybugs as alphabetic intermediary

"Curious what would happen if I could ask a computer to interpret an image as a crude sequence of letters, I wrote a program, BUBAMARA-OCR, that could infer a text based on Latin alphabet from an image using a computer vision algorithm. Ladybirds, chosen for their roles as predictive and fateful messengers, both biologically observed and reimagined by generative adversarial networks, were the intermediary between photo and alphabet — each letter having its own corresponding ladybird. Whatever ladybird — each section of the image looked like most determined the letter that the program would output."

[source quote](https://v1.left.gallery/downloads/bubamara-badlands-adriana-ramic.pdf)

offline, interactive, silent, macos and windows 

bubamara ocr

"oh yes, i will practice my canon proudly, a golden image of stark blue skies, of dams and dykes and waterworks, masters and guilds, and how they transformed into dedicated directors, offshore engineers, shiny-looking cars on lease claim our streets with logos of well-designed brands stuck to their windows – one empty baby seat in the back."

the video "beyond the nation state i want to dream" deals with the construct of nation states and national identity in europe, examining the binaries and mechanisms of exclusion at work in the constitution of a ‘we’. consisting entirely of slowly decomposing and recomposing computer-generated images, the video juxtaposes apparently innocuous representations of national identity with sites on which the intersection of nationhood, colonialism and imperial conquest have been made manifest. these sites range from fort elmina, the first european settlement in west africa, to the room in which the 1884 berlin conference took place. such imagery is accompanied by a dream-like monologue in which a narrator attempts in vain to escape from a present in which the historical violence of the nation state is perpetuate in the most mundane aspects of everyday life.

music and sounds for the video are produced and performed by jesse osborne-lanthier and olle holmberg, with a voice-over by therese ladegaard henningsen.

beyond the nation state i want to dream

Viktor Timofeev

a split-screen self-playing game surrounding two sets of characters. the characters, a group of humanoids and a flutter of butterflies, exist across two parallel realities in which their roles in a "cat and mouse" type of pursuit are reversed. they perform a generative, screen-specific, choreography in ten minute cycles, moving in tandem with their parallel world counterparts. the virtual camera orbiting the scene is also drawn into the performance, mimicking an omni-present surveillance device whose flight patterns and impulsive zooms are mirrored across the worlds. the path and outcome of each cycle is generally unique.



twodom

wakest

a blip of an idea
part of an ongoing series of playing with punycode domains

the procsess of registering it is the artwork...

☭.ml (Communism via Machine Learning)

"tumpin" is a stochastic picture that changes before your eyes. watch as sixteen colorful spots proceed endlessly along one hundred twenty-eight arrangements.

offline, not interactive, continuous, silent

tumpin

aaajiao

# lorem ipsum
## http://t-h-e-s-p-a-c-e.com/lorem-ipsum/
## website
## 2017

a collaboration of quanquan.

[*aaajiao*](https://eventstructure.com/)’s “lorem ipsum” proposes a prototype of an ideal user interface, seemingly perfect and compatible with any language, and any website or application.  Work from aaajiao's solo exhibition *[User, Love, High-frequency Trading](https://eventstructure.com/User-Love-High-frequency-Trading)*.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaajiao

Lorem Ipsum

Perfume Area

Serpentine and Tam Dao are the names of two fragrances made by Comme des Garçons and Diptyque, respectively. They were reviewed by Perfume Area (Sydney Shen & Laurel Schwulst) in 2015.

In each video, Damon Zucconi’s voice reads aloud a perfume review. The voice is synthetic and has no texture, but is instead composed of phonemes that are pure sine waves.

By Laurel Schwulst, Sydney Shen, and Damon Zucconi, 2016 

serpentine + tam dao

Sean Lockwood

A series of 3D rendered animations describing Cuboro block arrangements contained in a corner of a bedroom, with different simulated time-of-day lighting. As a screensaver, each animation corresponds to the time and location of the housing computer.

by sean lockwood   
production by laurel schwulst and daniel brewster


bedroom cuboro stacks

this fullscreen software autosurfs the massive genealogy of the 'death imitates language' project, containing the first 12.000 specimen, bred by a genetic algorithm, and selected by micro-feedback of the artist

offline, duration infinite, not interactive, silent

autobreeder (lite)

full title:   
"setting for a wasp to rewrite the passage of time (hours 8, 7, 11, 12, 1, 3, 6)"

pieces 1–12 of wooden sleeping snail, open window

a1 poster

setting for a wasp (...)

Rita Vitorelli

 a full screen software piece, infinitely reconstructing the temporal development of a selection of touchpad drawings

by Rita Vitorelli (22 drawings)   
and Harm van den Dorpel (programming), 2016

monaco mix

Damon Zucconi

A Caesar cipher is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in a text is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.
For example, with a left shift of 3, D would be replaced by A, E would become B, and so on.

The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it in his private correspondence. the Caesar cipher is easily broken and in modern practice offers essentially no communication security.

The philosopher's stone is a legendary alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver. For many centuries, it was the most sought-after goal in alchemy. 

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Shawné Michaelain Holloway

clips from personal messages, of which none ever reached and will ever reach the intended recipient, literally or intellectually. snippets of an attempt to communicate my desire and adoration through mediated technology in order to preserve, what i later realized was, a connection built on a foundation of ultra fragile fantasy and self-satisfaction.

undelivered

Alexis Anais Avedisian

_praying to the holy algorithm that i am made visible to you_

a collection of archived text + image works as displayed on my iphone(s) from 2014 - 2015. the zip contains 6 gifs and a text document of writing and selected subtweets.

archived

"as the camera moves through a hazy field of colours in which a physical reality is yet to crystallise, a semi-transparent sheet flows majestically across the frame as if caught in a gust of wind. perhaps aspirations for a better future may be transient, but nonetheless they must fly" (thomas cuckle)

music and sounds produced and performed by.  
jesse osborne-lanthier and olle holmberg.  
installation photos by tim bowditch

disobedient children

 the File is an ongoing process work rooted in (but not limited to) hypertext. you are invited to acquire a unique page of the File that provides access to the File, which will receive updates as long as the artist is alive. in addition to making the artist accessible, the File allows the user to file the file in the file.

this work is one of three works curated by nora khan 

file

Retrodiction is a collection of video poems created in dialogue with the urban geography of Berlin. Over the course of three months, Kherbek collected images of found, or, to use Kherbek's term, "second-hand", language that he encountered in the city and then wrote poems using the found language as titles for the works.

The 45 works that constitute Retrodiction extend ideas developed in two earlier projects, Ephemera (2014), a video collection of 45 poems posted to Youtube featuring the writer reading original works composed over 45 days in London, and Are You Free from Sin? (2015), a "second-hand language" project involving words Kherbek found while living in New York City which he subsequently arranged into a poem and live-posted on Instagram. The poems of Retrodiction exist in literary, sonic and visual dimensions, engaging technologies of distribution and mediation as much as language itself.

with special thanks to William Glucroft 

retrodiction

Gene mchugh

 The year is 2250.

The colony on the Moon is divided into debaucherous fascists and an underclass of mutants born without genitals.

Follow Frank and Gerry, two mutant bros. By day, they’re forced to salvage through the remains of a porn-filled shuttle that crashed on the Moon's dark side. By night, they plot their revenge.

Gene McHugh is a writer based in Los Angeles
He is the author of Post Internet (2011)

First edition of 500 is co-published by The Composing Rooms and Version House, Cover design by Harm van den Dorpel and Laurel Schwulst

bang bros

Generative Lindenmayer systems iterating over dissociative feels of social inadequacy

a significant amount of editions were acquired by the museum of applied arts in vienna with bitcoin, making this the [first work of art ever sold to a museum with bitcoin](http://www.artnews.com/2015/04/24/mak-vienna-becomes-first-museum-to-acquire-art-using-bitcoin-a-harm-van-den-dorpel/)

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