The New Observatory at FACT. Review by Daniel Rourke, on Furtherfield
The New Observatory opened at FACT, Liverpool on Thursday 22nd of June and runs
until October 1st.
The exhibition, curated by Hannah Redler Hawes and Sam Skinner, in
collaboration with The Open Data Institute, transforms the FACT galleries into
a playground of micro-observatories, fusing art with data science in an attempt
to expand the reach of both. Reflecting on the democratisation of tools which
allow new ways of sensing and analysing, The New Observatory asks visitors to
reconsider raw, taciturn 'data' through a variety of vibrant, surprising, and
often ingenious artistic affects and interactions. What does it mean for us to
become observers of ourselves? What role does the imagination have to play in
the construction of a reality accessed via data infrastructures, algorithms,
numbers, and mobile sensors? And how can the model of the observatory help us
better understand how the non-human world already measures and aggregates
information about itself?
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/new-observatory-fact
Wishing you well.
marc
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
Art, technology and social change, since 1996
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
Curating, Touring Exhibition
Monsters of the Machine:Frankenstein in the 21st Century
At Laboral, Spain until Sept 2017 http://bit.ly/2eGdpw1
Visiting other countries soon...
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