ART SG 2023

Created specifically for the fair, Brendan Dawes Infinite Glimpses (2022) builds on the artist’s signature use offormal simplicity alongside advanced technology. Using real-time generative processes and daily, ten-minutescreenshots taken in May 2022, this work creates an infinite number of obfuscated images of the artist’s digitalworkspace. Each composition fades over a period of thirty seconds and, once completely faded, will never beseen again.

In Auriea Harvey’s presentation of works from 2021, sculpture exists in both the digital (The Mystery v5-dv1 (goldstack)) and physical realms (The Mystery v5). Symbolic imagery evoking concepts of Memento Mori is found inthe skull (bone), a face (nature), a rose (beauty), and a braid (death). Using self-portraiture, Harvey is insertingan African-American woman into art history, an overdue revision of the narrative.

Participation is just as vital in touch is response-ability (2020) by Libby Heaney. Participants’ touch controls the artwork frames in this site-specific, interactive animation. The work exposes Heany’s research into biasespresent in representations of the body in computer vision, artificial intelligence, and art history. Heaney usesquantum computing and computer vision algorithm – Open-Pose – as artistic tools in transforming imagery.

In Saliva (2022), Lauren Lee McCarthy stages questions about body politics and ownership. Visitors willbe invited to take part in an exchange of biodata and, in so doing, store representations of this data on theblockchain.

Within a morphing digital landscape, Michael Takeo Magruder’s Imaginary Cities — London (11010962736) (2019)is a real-time, generative work that delivers ephemeral visuals accompanied by an algorithmic soundscape.The artwork draws from a historical map of late-Georgian London that is part of the British Library’s OneMillion Images from Scanned Books collection. A Flash program running on the system composes the scenefrom a dataset containing an entire year (2018) of processed image material generated by the project’s onlineserver application.

Extending his explorations into the inherently human nature of the artificial, Alexander Reben presents debutceramic sculptures. These artworks are the direct result of the artist’s experimentations in human-machinecollaborations at the forefront of AI technology and pose interesting questions pertaining to authorship andprocess.

From their award-winning film, UNINVITED (2018-present), Nye Thompson and UBERMORGEN will exhibitUNINVITED Unseen (2022) a series of videos which are an NFT collection. UNINVITED Unseen presents amultidimensional synthetic organism, and unfolds a ground-breaking way to collect and own an artist’s film.

For the New Now section of the fair, Zizi & Me - Anything you can do (I Can Do Better) (2020) by Jake Elwes usescabaret and musical theatre to challenge narratives surrounding AI and society. As part of _The Zizi Project_(2019-ongoing), Zizi & Me - Anything you can do (I Can Do Better) explores the intersections of drag performanceand AI using neural networks and deep-fake technology.