Why Equals

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A Study of Invisible Images

“Trevor Paglen’s A Study of Invisible Images is the first exhibition of works to emerge from his ongoing research into computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI) and the changing status of images. This body of work has formed over years of collaboration with software developers and computer scientists and as an artist-in-residence at Stanford University. The resulting prints and moving images reveal a proliferating and otherwise imperceptible category of “invisible images” characteristic of computer vision.” Metro Pictures

http://www.metropictures.com/exhibitions/trevor-paglen4

Comet (Corpus: Omens and Portents) Adversarially Evolved Hallucination, 2017 dye sublimation metal print

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Space Sculpture - Trevor Paglen’s Nonfunctional Satellites

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An opera of trees having a chat

Unsung Heroes of the Planet is a public engagement of science opera created with researchers from Cardiff University, about the fact that trees can communicate with on another through a network of fungus called mycelia. It will pop up in various locations around Green Man Festival from August 17th — 20th 2017.

see more on the Gestalt Arts website

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Rubbish art

Dirty Beach speak to audiences by making powerful visual statements on how we treat our planet - no science-chat, but perhaps more effective because of it?

See more on the Dirty Beach website, and read this article in the Guardian

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Being human is a challenge, but one of its upsides is the fascinating diversity of perspectives that human beings have. A dozen of us can look at one event, or consider one idea, and we can be planets apart in how we see it and in what conclusions we draw.

Paul Kingsnorth - Planting Trees in the Anthroposcene

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Arts Catalyst Presents Experiments in Art and Technology

22 September - 29 October 2016

Arts Catalyst present an exhibition chronicling the history of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), the group behind the legendary 9 Evenings: Theater and Engineering event in 1966, exactly fifty years ago. The exhibition will include archival presentations and film screenings, making public this rich history of pioneering cross-disciplinary collaboration. An accompanying talks programme in collaboration with Afterall’s Exhibition Histories series, will reflect on the histories of art and technology in performance, transdisciplinary collaboration, and the influence of the 1960s on contemporary art today.

www.artscatalyst.org

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Music created by an algorithm in under a second ...... 

Performed by Gustavo Díaz-Jerez (harpsichord) and Sviatoslav Belonogov (viola d'amore).

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Prodding photographs 

Amazing project from computer scientist Abe Davis 

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In the end, maps are empty. For the poet Charles Baudelaire, the importance of a city wasn’t in the structures themselves but the people who fill them. “The lover of universal life enters into the crowd as though it were an immense reservoir of electrical energy,” he wrote in The Painter of Modern Life in 1863. While there may be a whole new reservoir of electricity in my phone battery, it’s still nothing compared to the energy of a surging crowd. And while we may be encouraged to chart our pictures and words to maps, actual memories are a lot harder to pin down. People, and memories of people, are harder things to map than streets and alleys.

How digital maps are changing the way we understand our world  

Thomas McMullan in the Guardian

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According to this (un)employability survey physicists and artists seem to have at least one thing in common....

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The Essay on Radio 3 - Another Giant Leap

Dr Stuart Clark argues that humanity must leave Earth and set up outposts on other worlds.

For more than fifteen years there have always been people living and working in space and the pace of space exploration is, once again, accelerating.

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Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy untangles the fascinating maths hidden beneath the surface of some of our great contemporary and historical works of art. His essays cover architecture, visual arts, music, literature and the artistry of maths itself.

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The space artist who saw Pluto before NASA

“He has seen the impossible, painting outer space long before man got there. He has made book covers for Arthur C Clarke and spaceships for Doctor Who. David A Hardy is the oldest living space artist ... and he has never made a mistake” 

See this article in The Guardian 2 November 2015

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A truly isolated investigator is impossible (…). An isolated investigator without bias and tradition, without forces of mental society acting upon him, and without the effect of the evolution of that society, would be blind and thoughtless. Thinking is a collective activity (…). Its product is a certain picture, which is visible only to anybody who takes part in this social activity, or a thought which is also clear to the members of the collective only. What we do think and how we do see depends on the thought-collective to which we belong

 Ludwik Fleck, 1935

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IK Prize 2015: Tate Sensorium display at Tate Britain. Four works from Tate's Collection can be experienced through the senses

You can feel, hear, smell and taste art at Tate Britain from 26 August.