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deepSigh launches in Melbourne
In a site-specific installation for Assembly Point, Donnachie and Simionato introduce their new generalised-automated-art-system (GAAS) called deepSigh.
Throughout the duration of this month long exhibition, deepSigh will use an industrial blower and a plastic bag as a randomising engine as it attempts to plot unique (non-computationally predictable) orbital drawings. The artwork is completely sealed from the world outside of its glass-case (sometimes referred to as being “air-gapped”) and does not make reference to any external data during the exhibition.
deepSigh is the result of combining a number of custom-trained LLMs (Large Language Models) and other bespoke software created and used by Donnachie and Simionato during a decade of experimenting with computational unknowingness (1), which they do not perceive as an absence, but an openness from which new meanings, and feelings, may appear.
As with many works hosted by the CCU, ‘unknowing’, here, is defined as a productive suspension that allows pre-symbolic sense to emerge, with language and meaning arriving only after perception has already taken shape.
The exhibition, Beneath the Street, is curated by Peter Burke and is hosted by the Melbourne City art space, Assembly Point.
