Art
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Classic pitch: The world is dying, lets spread the word of how amazing nature is to raise awareness and save it.New twist: You never get to see the natural world.The future: Nature will forever be a fiction, and now it will be mediated to you through AI. Refik Anadol Studio has created one of the
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“You’re overthinking it”. That’s what a woman said to me when I sat playing White Chess Set (1966) at Yoko Ono’s Tate Modern retrospective Music of the Mind. It’s a lot to unpack. Can you overthink conceptual art? I’m inclined to think yes. Can you over-question it? I’m not so sure. The teeth of this
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Time Machine at Hayward Gallery This bit of writing was an assignment on the Critical AI module that I audited in Autumn 2023. I thought there were a number of parallels in the labour relations between the work undertaking to make “AI” happen, and that of some of the images and subjects in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s
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In summer 2023 Ieva (middle left pictured) put out a call for people to join her in a collective application for a show at Hypha Studios in Mayfair. Hypha are an organisation that takes stewardship of meanwhile spaces and offers them out as studios and exhibition spaces to artists, curators and other such creatives. Unfortunately
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Before the old academic year ended, the new one started it seemed. I was fortunate enough to have my work chosen to be exhibited as part of the Digital Design Weekend at the V&A, in its event for the London Design Festival, I took an Internship at Jason Bruges Studio, and was also nominated for
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Since the interim show, I continued to construct the vertical garden. I began growing my plants in March. I’m not much of a gardener, but the idea of vertical gardening is to reduce the labour in the process as well as increase space efficiency. The propagator I had for my plants was meant to be
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I realise I never posted on here the work I made for our show at the end of last term, despite having posted most of the supporting material. So here it is. When displayed, the work had no sound, I was to be in a busy sound-filled space and the song I wanted I wasn’t
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Whilst writing my dissertation, one of the technologies I was unfortunately unable to cover, that could become a major influencer in the way in which humans live in future, was vertical farming. The concept is simple, crops take up space, require monitoring and nurturing as well as being vulnerable to natural disasters and pests, so
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Dan Rowan-Smith and I decided we wanted to do a show in the morgue at Chelsea College. As the majority of our work is digital, we don’t often get to exhibit work or have it hanging around in the studios like a painter or sculptor does, also it’s always good to get more show experience.
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Michael Dean, Turner Prize at Tate Britain Paul Nash at Tate Britain The Infinite Mix Where Are We Now? – Ben Coiacetto, Rosanna Dean and Ranulph Redlin And the Earth Screamed, Alive – Emma Charles at South Kiosk Cool projection mapping at Chelsea. Special Halloween party performance.
Robin Leverton 