Seeing Electronic Superhighway at Whitechapel Gallery

The full title for this exhibition is Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966).

images/mava/dso-111365-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

Douglas Copland, Deep Face, 2015. Acrylic on B&W photograph, mounted on diabond.

This piece is making an observation about the pervasiveness of facial-recognition software, particularly in Facebook allowing the use of facial recognition software, with or without user consent.

images/mava/dso-111376-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

TOR router

images/mava/dso-111791-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

Is this art? Or is it a security camera?

images/mava/dso-111722-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

Its art!

images/mava/dso-111787-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

Computer rage. Plays clips from YouTube of people trashing their computers.

images/mava/dso-111729-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

An interesting way of doing perspective. The images at the top are huge. Then, as progressing down, they get smaller.

images/mava/dso-111211-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

Nam June Paik, Internet Dream, 1994.

images/mava/dso-111215-e7818abf28c83b38e7ef56d7cdbecddd486d4b3e5b7e7cda922348e1e97475ba.jpg

Demonstrating once again the infallibility of computers, this piece was genuinely experiencing an ‘oops’ moment. I had a debate with some other as to whether this was a genuine failure, or the deliberate state. Later on we saw an engineer trying to restart the piece, so broken state confirmed.

comments powered by Disqus