Data_Divine

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 sort of abracadabra.

I’m_Online shows people in cafés working on their devices. I’ve subjected these images to an algorithm that leaves some pixels untouched while altering others with a swipe. Coding used to create popular websites such as FB appear muted in the images.

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

Headline_Binaries are news headlines translated into ones and zeroes.

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

The photographs in Psychic_Storefronts were rendered by an algorithm that reproduces images as lines.

Margin of Error shows nano, robotic and genetic material which I’ve altered algorithmically and made into composites.

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

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 placed them in Google Earth backgrounds.

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