EXHIBITION: Machine Vision
MACHINE VISION
Group Exhibition
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, March 3rd, from 5-8 pm
Candela Gallery is excited to announce Machine Vision, a group exhibition exploring our evolving creative relationship with new technologies, especially where our subjects and original sources are mediated in part by computers and/or industrial science.
Featuring work by Michael Borowski, Kurt Caviezel, Adam Chin, Rashed Haq, Noelle Mason, Drew Nikonowicz, Maija Tammi, & Corinne Vionnet.
Machine Vision is a survey of tech-based artists using public surveillance cameras (Caviezel), robotics (Tammi), artificial intelligence (Chin & Haq), or unconventional cameras, such as scanners (Borowski), computer monitors (Nikonowicz), X-ray (Mason), or by digital composites of appropriated web-based images (Vionnet).
In Noelle Mason’s collaboration with the machine, paintings and sculptures are examined by x-ray, revealing underlying layers to the artworks and creating a tension between the finished creations and their process. In an abbreviated selection of Rashed Haq's Human Trials project, the artist has retrained artificial intelligence to generate portraits of people who do not exist, pointing to the incoherency and instability of algorithmic categorization. The resulting distortions represent incomplete data sets, pointing to the corruption of synthesized intention.
Maija Tammi’s conceptual work, One of Them is a Human is both lovely and unsettling in its depiction of three androids and (possibly) one human. The extent to which we believe in our own fictions is one of the most persistent concerns and one that leaves us feeling vulnerable in the long run. It isn’t difficult to harbor insecurities about incoming tech when we (the noble we) have already proven to be raw data, involuntarily collected by big corporations, sold and sold again to other big corporations.
With the advent of broadly accessible AI, both commercial and fine artists are weighing the costs/benefits and the developing ethics inherent to new tech. This exhibition and its accompanying panel discussion will examine the swirling issues of authorship, bias, privacy, data collection, and the precarious impermanence of reality.
Machine Vision will open Friday, March 3rd, and be on view through
April 29th, 2023. Candela will be hosting an artist panel on April 6th.
Stay tuned for more information.