Title International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)

Year: 2024

Credit: DSS

System: The Cloud of Unknowing

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International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA)


Research/performance presented at the 29th International Conference of Electronic Art (ISEA) held in Brisbane, Australia.

From the Conference proceedings:

Artist Statement
A series of short films originally intended as companion pieces to automated art systems such as The Cloud of Unknowing, A Jagged Orbit and Monolith, among others, will be presented together for the first time in this temporary site of the Center for Computational Unknowing.

The CCU tests notions of complicit human-nonhuman relationships emerging through the deepening engagement with intelligent systems for creative practices, and more generally, cultural production in society.

With the constant and indiscriminate accumulation and control of data, what, if anything, will remain unknowable?

About the artists
Karen ann Donnachie & Andrea (Andy) Simionato have worked exclusively together in the expanded fields of cybernetic art and design since the 1990s. Their artworks and designs have won the highest international awards and critical recognition in their fields, and have been featured in a number of design museums, publications and international press. The duo received the Tokyo Type Directors Club Grand Prize in 2024, the RGB Prize in 2020, and the TDC Prize in 2019. Their AI-generated books received the 2020 Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Book Publishing, and in 2020, they received the Robert Coover Award for Electronic Literature (USA). In 2023, Karen Ann & Andy regularly exhibit internationally and their Nonhuman reading machine was acquired by Germany’s National Library’s Museum for Books and Reading. The duo also run the publishing concern Atomic Activity Books, and designed the journal “Art and Australia.”

Credits: Karen ann Donnachie & Andrea (Andy) Simionato


) The Center for Computational Unknowing
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At the CCU we practice many experimental art techniques of appropriation, including computational collage where existing publications (including books and magazines) and other found printed matter, are 'cut-up' and recombined into new works. The use of these found materials means that parts of the original publications may be included in the final artworks and/or process documentation. In such cases, we acknowledge the use of the original somewhere in the didactic description or directly within the work itself. However, any inclusion of the found publication, or part thereof, in the final artwork should not imply any endoresment of the CCU by the original publication's authors or publishers. All enquiries should be directed to our offices.


 
Acknowledgements

All artworks and texts, unless otherwise stated, are published courtesy the artists, 'Donnachie, Simionato & Sons' (2024). Visual and textual materials on this site may only be reproduced for scholarly purposes and with citations. Please forward all enquiries to contact@unknowing.cc

Many of the automated-art-systems in the CCU utilise open-source software and hardware which would not exist without the contribution of their respective communities. Special thanks to Processing (Java and Javascript); arduino (C++) and Raspberry Pi systems; Python; Inkscape.



Atomic Activity Books

Official publishing partners to the CCU. At www.AtomicActivity.com you can find limited editions from the Library of Nonhuman Books, as well as art multiples from many of the CCU's other automated-art-systems. Explore the entire catalogue of books and objects at the Atomic Activity website, or from selected bookstores.



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