Complex systems ︎︎︎

2022  
Single channel video with audio, CRT color monitor, vinyl, studio stands, chromalux prints on aluminum, custom marble and limestone pedestals, custom silicone dye type font, steel.
Prints: 54in x 36in x 12in each, 6 in total
Wall text: Approx. 4ft x 18ft
Vinyl grid: Approx. 5ft. x 11ft. x12.5ft.


A result of a multi-year research into the materiality of a hyperfeminine companion robot this body of work traces methodical feminist intervention into the coded data sets populated with a ‘master-slave’ rhetoric to point to the algorithmic notions of emancipation, control, agency, and autonomy that govern the human-machine relations. By bridging various systems of classification from social, cultural, and technological domains, the exhibition challenges the collapsing boundaries of intimacy and agency within algorithmic landscapes.


Images: Yubo Dong/ofstudio