Jakob Kudsk Steensen “Closed Circuit Habitat”
Cuchifritos
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This exhibition is part two of four in the Workspace ‘18 project series, featuring new work from residents of AAI’s LES Studio Program.
To end his residency with Artists Alliance Inc, Jakob Kudsk Steensen will exhibit his virtual organism, the Pando Endo, a real-time computer simulation at Cuchifritos Gallery. “Pando” (Latin for “I spread”), borrowed from the name of the clonal colony of aspen trees, and “endo” referring to infrastructure. Pando Endo was developed from phone photographs of aspen tree bark, moss, and roots of a clonal colony of aspen trees in the mountains of New Mexico. These photographs were converted into digital textures and programmed to morph together with a procedural system that functions as a root system.
Four drones, fitted with spotlights, circulate the virtually simulated organism, examining it, zooming in on its movements. The organism has been tasked with breaching virtual glass cabinets and taught to gauge and mobilize towards light sources. Textures crawl across its surface area and liquids trickle along its tentacles like clustered organic entities. Based on this programming, the root system has found its own navigation. It resists stationery exhibition to spread and traverse the vast emptiness in the empty warehouse and exhibition space.
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Schedule
from February 23, 2018 to March 11, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-02-23 from 18:00 to 20:00