Data_Divine
2017-2024
Algorithmics
The Dream Life of Data
404 NotFound
Margin of Error
I’m_Online
Psychic_Storefronts
Headline_Binaries
Machine_Learning
Ghost_in_the_Machine
Tweets
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.