Data_Divine

2017-2024

The algorithm is the logic machine behind the digital realm. Data_Divine has eleven series. Each thinks with algorithms in a different way.

Algorithms make things real in the same way language does. It’s all a sort of abracadabra.

I’m_Online shows people in cafés working on their personal computers. These images have been subjected to an algorithm that leaves some pixels untouched while altering others with a wipe. Coding used to create popular websites also appears in these images.

Algorithmics are abstractions generated by some algorithms working on other algorithms. I make some choices and then let it rip.

Headline_Binaries are news headlines translated into ones and zeroes.

Tweets are Twitter quotes pixelated and glitched, then formally assembled.

The photographs in Psychic_Storefronts have been re-rendered by an algorithm that sees images as lines.

Margin of Error collages algorithmically altered technological imagery – such as nano, robotic and genetic material – that is busy preparing our future.

Persons of Interest appear in scenarios. These figures have memoji faces – many of which were made by colleagues in their own likeness.

404 NotFound gives form to memories of persons, places and things that continue to haunt.

I used several AI text-to-image apps to generate the material in The Dream Life of Data.

To make Machine_Learning I produced human-type figures and then placed them in Google Earth glitched backgrounds.

Ghost_in_the_Machine presents hapless, human-type figures in spooky imaginary environments.