Thresholds of the Algorithmic is both an exhibition and a workshop. The exhibition opens Friday June 8th with a mediated tour, converts into a private workshop, and gradually changes. On Thursday 14th of June, the exhibition opens also for an evening event with new and transformed works.
Algorithms are everywhere, – simultaneously they are concealed. We might register them in (as much as we notice) the selection of advertisements or news posts that are suggested to us on social media. It is not quite as easy to understand how algorithms function – we accept, often unwittingly – their analyses and conclusions.
In the art world we also see an increasing interest in algorithms. Previously they were understood as abstract entities which could be used for formal experiments that generated art or music «by itself». However today, to a much greater degree, they are woven into art practices and music composition as a fundamental element within the work. Similarly in daily life, algorithms have been an invisible yet central component of the creative process, which one could easily take for granted.
Thresholds of the Algorithmic gathers a group of established Norwegian and international artists within the fields of digital art, visual art, sound art and music.
In this exhibition come workshop, they research how algorithms can be used as tool, binding agent or designer in the development of art. The exhibition will show a series of large sound installations, kinetic sculptures and performance work – all of which challenge the limitations – thresholds – of what an algorithm can be.
Participants: Niklas Adam, Eirik Blekesaune, Alicia Champlin, Max Franklin, Erin Gee, Kosmas Giannoutakis, Tijs Ham, Daniele Pozzi, Thorolf Thuestad and Stefano Zorzanello. Workshop conveners: David Pirró and Hanns Holger Rutz.
Organised by BEK and Notam, co-produced by Lydgalleriet. Supported by Arts Council Norway.