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Rebecca AllenThe Observer, 1999-2019HD Video with audio
Duration: 13:30 Continuous LoopThe Observer provides a contemplative environment that feels both natural and synthetic, familiar and strange. It draws the audience into a world of moving abstract forms with their own rules of behaviour. As an observer the viewer can see new ways of being.
This work marks a voyeuristic return to Emergence: a game-like computer system that Allen developed in the late 1990’s. Emergence includes a generative AI system that allows the artist to simulate life-like behaviours of animated artificial lifeforms.
The viewer’s experience draws attention to the abstracted nature of the natural landscape and to the abstracted life-forms with their own rules of behaviour. With this work Allen has created contemplative videos akin to moving paintings. -
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Vallee DuhamelDrifter 4Somewhere between a guest and a glitch, the Drifter isn’t exactly lost, just… undecided. It flickers in and out, like bad reception or a half-finished thought, bending light in ways it probably shouldn’t. Try to pin it down, and it’s already gone—reshuffled, reassembled, mid-exit. Drifters don’t wait around for explanations. They cut across dimensions, take wrong turns on purpose, and leave behind just enough to make you wonder if they were ever really here. Maybe they weren’t. Maybe they still are.
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OperatorHuman Unreadable #208 Act 1Human Unreadable is a three-act, embodied generative artwork hiding the human body in plain sight (on-chain). Bringing together choreography, code, blockchain, generative art, and cryptography, the work culminates in a live performance. Each output is driven by the motion data of its underlying unique, on-chain choreographic sequence. The sequences behind the first 100 minted works will be performed during the IRL premiere. Date and hosting institution to be announced.
Human Unreadable has roots in various histories such as computational choreography (Analivia Cordeiro, Jeanne Beaman), Merce Cunningham's Chance Dance, and the Experiments in Art and Technology movement. With Ti’s background as an HCI technologist and multimedia artist and Catherine’s background as a choreographer and performance artist, Operator architected a bespoke team, 25+ individuals ranging from specialized engineers to dancers, who embarked on a highly experimental process to realize the work. Operator's on-chain generative choreography method is the technical backbone of Human Unreadable—the process and open source tooling for which are being made available to other artists and institutions. Operator's method was utilized in 2024 by sculptor Hermine Bourdin for her collaboration with the Paris Opera.
Operator hints at a future where the economics of performing arts are transformed via technology, with new opportunities for artists who work in ephemeral mediums to develop sustainable practices.150cm × 116.25cm -
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