Memory as something that keeps falling.
gozo (@uncertaingaze) opened under the debris at Galerie Met (@GalerieMet) in Berlin on Friday night, on view through Nov 7: 15 digital works and 5 lithographs he spent more than six months developing. He runs early Stable Diffusion models on his own machine, treats their degraded output as a kind of collective memory, then breaks it apart and recomposes what remains into collages that never quite resolve. "To remember is to collapse slowly," the gallery writes. The digital works drop on @verse_works on Wed Oct 21.
Talk to the artist, even when the artist isn't there.
NEW MEDIA / NEW TECHNOLOGY / NEW ARTIST opened Saturday at ISLAND in Harajuku, the Tokyo gallery of island JAPAN (@islandjapan), after stops in Fukuoka and Seoul. Kazuki Takakura (@_takakurakazuki), Kenta Cobayashi, Ao Ito, Shunsuke Saiki (@shunsuke_saiki) and Namae Myoji (@myoji_namae_) work across painting, VR, 3DCG, NFTs and game art, and an AI agent called ego Graphica, trained on each artist's ideas and practice, lets visitors explore the work in conversation. Takakura shows a new stage of his game for the first time in Tokyo. Through Nov 1.
Who decides what may be said?
Manifestations (@Manifestations_), the free media art expo of Dutch Design Week, opened Saturday at Veem in Eindhoven, through Oct 25. Jip van Leeuwenstein's Surveillance Exclusion Mask is a transparent mask that throws off facial recognition from several angles while keeping your expression readable, while Ilya Fedotov's Trapped By Design puts a giant Labubu on an arcade machine that plays you while you play it.
Last week for the whales.
At the Museum of the Moving Image (@MovingImageNYC) in Queens, Terms of Agreement 🐳 by Jonas Lund (@jonas_lund) and Yoshi Sodeoka (@yoshi_sodeoka) runs through Sun Oct 25 on the Schlosser Media Wall, commissioned through the museum's partnership with the Tezos Foundation (@TezosFoundation), curated by Regina Harsanyi (@ReginaHarsanyi). The real-time triptych turns office life into a simulation driven by live wallet activity from a handful of top media art collectors, the art world's "whales," and by sighting data from actual whales, dolphins and orcas at sea.
New on http://catalogue.gallery: Jakob Kudsk Steensen (@Jakob_steensen) has brought Berl-Berl to MoMA (@MuseumModernArt), a living simulation of the wetlands Berlin was built on, named for the Slavic word for swamp and sung through with the voice of Arca (@arca1000000), on view through Mar 7, 2027.
And a history: at Bell Labs, Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon turned a photograph into a wall of tiny symbols 12 feet wide, and their office prank, Computer Nude, ended up in The New York Times.
Ahead: Today is the last day of Patchlab's Dream Sim festival in Kraków.
On Tue Oct 20, Sine (@sinusoidalsnail) releases A Number Is a Means of Expressing an Idea in a Definite Way on @SuperRare, 64 loops drawn from the visual language of computation.