PROJECT
PRINTS
ALL IMAGES
Google Earth
MARCH 22 - ONGOING
Algofictions
PRINTS
ALL IMAGES
Google Earth
Maxar Technologies
MARCH 22 - ONGOING
SATELLITE IMAGES OF YACHTS, SHIPS AND SAILBOATS
HANDMADE CYANOTYPES
HAHNEMÜHLE PLATINUM RAG 100% COTTON 300GSM
190MM X 275MM
HANDMADE CYANOTYPES
HAHNEMÜHLE PLATINUM RAG 100% COTTON 300GSM
190MM X 275MM
This practice consists of a collection of satellite images of boats distorted by algorithms, manoeuvred through speculative narratives, to create extensions and alternative stories of technology.
Creative algorithms of contemporary digital mapping systems are programmed to erase transports from the mapped territory. These systems seek a clean presentation of the represented territory. The poetics of the contemporary infrastructure landscape is reduced.
From a speculative point of view, if algorithms can behave humanely, the phenomena of erasing transports and humans can be interpreted as a psychopathic action –algorithms are assassins. By personifying the assets of this action, we are left with a destructive message: algorithms are eliminating the human. What does this evoke? What signs can we deduce from this action? Why does the territory in contemporary macro-cartographic systems have to be represented clean, without humans, without transport? If maps are colonisation tools and transports a paradox of globalisation, what roles, frameworks and behaviours can be attributed to the actions conceived by algorithms and satellites at service?
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BACONIAN DEFORMATIONS WITH CIRCLES
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DOPPELGÄNGERS
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BACONIAN DEFORMATIONS
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SPECTRAL TRACES
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Our contemporary visual culture is saturated by views from above. From our virtual zenith, we observe photographs of boats taken by satellites and retouched by algorithms. The heavy metal of some of these transports is deformed to bubbly shapes. In other cases, the heavy metal fades to transparency. Inside these haunted transports, there are people. Are these persons also fading and distorted in the image?
In digital mapping representational systems, algorithms are trained to erase people and transports. Trevor Paglen refers to Harun Farocki as “one of the first to notice that image-making machines and algorithms were poised to inaugurate a new visual regime. Instead of simply representing things in the world, the machines and their images were starting to “do” things in the world”, thus condemning the human eye to an anachronistic existence, “machines were starting to see for themselves”.
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SINKING SHIP
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DOPPELGÄNGERS
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GHOST FLIES TOURS
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