Machine Sees More Than It Says
2022
Video (color, silent) composed of archival footage and software
3:47
Clips of footage are gathered from archival videos made between the 1950s and 1980s. Stitched together, they form a sketch of a computer's imagining of itself and the courses of development which formed it, hinting at processes of resource extraction, transport, technical advancement, interfaces and labor. In the words of the artist: "I was working on a completely different piece and kept stumbling across footage from different videos that all seemed to share an aesthetic feel and hint at deeper computational stories....as if the tools I was using were intervening to speak of themselves.
CURATOR
Jesse Damiani, 2022 for Feral File