Random Access Memory (RAM)

In this 2 part video artwork, the artist looks at abstraction through the contemporary lens of machine aesthetics. Grounded in his practice of exploring machine intelligence and emergent aesthetics for over a decade now, the artist works with intergenerational and inter-geographical representations of abstraction art. Can we teach machines the aesthetics of abstraction, can we use its capabilities to lead an inquiry into the dialogue and departures between eastern and western approaches and aesthetics of it, between the figurative and surreal comparisons and influences of it. Can we build on the inherent nature of digital repeatability fused into it and evolve it to take contemporary forms of movement and dynamism. Above all, machine intelligence or ‘artificial’ intelligence based art in itself is a craft of abstraction drawing from data (or accessing inputs from machinic memory), combined with codified processes. In this work, the artist attempts to augment the aesthetics of abstractionism and our engagement with it through a machinic lens of enquiry to them.