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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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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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I probably owed this blog the process of my final piece “In_Organsim: Octopus” when it was completed and my time as a student at Goldsmiths came to an end. Alas, I found myself swept up in the post-studying insecurity of looking for a job, a new home, and a momentous wave to carry me forward.
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I took my early explorations in Stable Diffusion and developed a way to make more interesting images with them, and develop an artistic process that wasn’t the kitsch boring photoreal woman in place images that plague the internet since the growth of these generative models exploded this past year. My subject was the octopus, and
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In_Organisms is an exploration of fictioning and embodied intelligence. Beginning as an idea to create a working sculptural algae bioreactor concept, the project evolved through the material constraints I put myself under, of recycling PET drinks bottles as the primary material of its production, into a pure speculative exercise. After modelling algorithmically an idea of
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The inspiratorial jumping off point for this project was the idea of creating an algae bioreactor using recycled PET bottles. DIY examples of such systems are relatively simple and have been made with a number of different designs. The purpose of this interest correlates with my interest in ecology and food production. Algae gain mass
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The Carsten Holler exhibition that was on show at the Hayward Gallery over the summer was less a cerebral exercise and more a wide snapshot on the various ways of constructing art and its potential involvement in the non-art world. His use of technologies, such as VR Headsets to create a narrative environment we can not
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The Agnes Martin show at Tate Modern was one of the best shows I have seen so far this year and was a real eye opener in terms of the simple, calm nature that speaks volumes throughout her work. The grid style that she employed throughout her whole career I found to be tellingly relevant
Robin Leverton 