FOLLOW THE MACHINE - EXHIBITION BY PIXEL MOUTH
Follow the Machine is a multimedia exhibition + show exploring how putting our utmost faith into machines is helping/\hurting us.
The power dynamics between user and machine have become unclear - constantly reversing roles between servant and master. What happens when we let go of our own knowledge and Follow the Machine? The machines are often functioning at a different level from our own understanding, being both literal and proverbial black boxes whose inner workings are too complex to understand. From our perspective, the output of the machine is seemingly random, and why it chooses what it does is almost divine.
The Mandarin character for “randomness” can be directly translated to “Follow the Machine”, trusting that the machine has the answer to whatever question we have, the machine itself has become a modern oracle.
Follow the Machine is the highly anticipated third show presented by //PIXELMOUTH. Join us in following the 1s and 0s, wherever they may lead.
Doors at 7:30, show at 8. Pay-what-you-can, in advance or at the door.
about pixel mouth
//PIXELMOUTH is an art collective founded by four New York-based digital artists of multiple disciplines. We aim to merge the chaotic digital fringes into unified shows. The skills of people working in tech should not be solely reserved for business. We bring together digital performance art, hardware creation, and software manipulation to recontextualize our relationship with the world around us.
