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John Butler / Butler brothers

Glasgow

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http://www.lewisbush.com/ways-of-seeing-algorithmically/

Lewis Bush - ways of seeing algorithmically

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Martin John Callanan

Departure of all

 http://greyisgood.eu/departure/

A flight departure board for all passenger departures from airports around the world, as they happen

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Kate Cooper Infection Drivers, 2019

rhizome screen series

https://vimeo.com/411564739

Kate Cooper deploys computer-generated imagery (CGI), a technology typically used in commercial production, to create worlds populated by digital figures who perform everyday human actions. Using an uncanny mix of photographic and pixel-built images, Cooper explores how new visual languages complicate divisions between physical and virtual selves.

Cooper’s CGI protagonists perform to soundtracks by Soraya Lutangu, also known as Bonaventure. They bleed, bruise, and get sick, displaying a fragility that belies their presumed immortality—and perhaps offers a way of resisting the demands of the digital capitalist economy. Cooper’s works suggest that we can reclaim autonomy by countering or refusing virtual forms of labor, instead allowing these intangible bodies to act in our place.

Infection Drivers (2019) explores the body under attack. In this work, a CGI figure struggles to move and breathe in a translucent suit, which takes her body through transmutations of stereotypically masculine and feminine physiques as it inflates and deflates. In a time of increased public surveillance through facial-recognition software and biometric data mining, Cooper’s high-definition world invites us to investigate and perhaps find freedom in the technologies often used to constrain us.

“Screens Series: Kate Cooper” was curated by Jeanette Bisschops, Curatorial Apprentice.

Kate Cooper (b. 1984, Liverpool, UK) lives and works in London and Amsterdam.