24 inch in diameter mounted giclée print
Edition of 5 + 2APs
$2,200
Courtesy of the artist and Pari Nadimi Gallery.
Artist Statement:
Deep Aware Triads is an ongoing project with an attempt to translate various complex systems and phenomena into images. It involves a process for making digital paintings/collages based on diagrams the artist creates that are inspired by the architecture of artificial neural networks. Utilizing databases of images from stock photograph archives and academic research papers as a source, the artist misuses the content-aware fill function and other image processing algorithms to blend boundaries of found images with machine imagined pixels. Images encroach on each other as digital bodies, creating unexpected and obscure brushes and textures. The final work that embed intricate details appears to stimulate algorithmic pareidolia. vivirvivirvivir (2020 - 2021) researches and foregrounds the agencies of viral systems as means and metaphor through the biological, the computational, and the linguistic.
Biography:
Xuan Ye is a practitioner in music, design, web, art, and education, currently working between the Pearl River Delta and Tkarón:to. Ye’s body of work translates between various modes of being and creation, synthesizing language, code, sound, body, image, data, light, and time. Ye makes noises in the sensorium, coupling it with more-than-human agencies (internet, machine intelligence, electricity and circuitries, and non-human organisms) to experiment with meaning-becoming and world-building.
Ye’s work has been featured, exhibited, and performed internationally, including at peer to space (GE), Centre de Design de l’UQAM à Montréal (CA), Varley Art Gallery (CA), Canadian Art, the AGO (CA), Vivid Projects (UK), InterAccess (CA), Inside-out Art Museum (CN), Goethe-Institut (CN & CA), ArtAsiaPacific, KUNSTFORUM (GE), among others. Ye was a finalist of EQ Bank Digital Artists Award in 2018 and a recipient of a SSHRC scholarship. Ye’s music performances and releases have received critical accolades from Bandcamp, Musicworks, and Exclaim!.
Reflections on Transparency
Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel
TPW is delighted to present a new commission by Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel.
Reflections on Transparency is an examination of the transparent barriers that have become ubiquitous in sites of retail in light of COVID-19. Born of an interest in hostile architecture, public space and landscapes that elicit particular behaviours, this investigation meditates on the intersections between the politics of hygiene and disaster capitalism.
Benjamin and Sophia’s project will be posted on TPW’s Instagram from October 8 – 10, 2020.
Biographies
Benjamin de Boer (b. 1995, Attawandaron, ON) is a writer, researcher, and bookseller living in Tkaronto. They received their Honours BA in Philosophy and Archaeology from the University of Toronto in 2018. Benjamin can be found studying the melancholy poetics of our earth lyric and exploring their openness to improvisation within a practice of group enunciation. Favouring sympedagogic situations, Benjamin currently co-directs Hearth, an arts space founded alongside Rowan Lynch, Sameen Mahboubi, and Philip Leonard Ocampo.
Sophia Oppel (b. 1995) is an arts practitioner and researcher born and based in Tkaronto. Oppel’s work examines interfaces and infrastructures as sites of power, and their influences on embodied experience. Oppel received her BFA from OCAD University and is currently a co-director of Bunker 2 Gallery, and a Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally.
Reflections on Transparency is presented in the context of MOVEMENTS. As its title suggests, this online and site-specific program presents several projects by artists whose work references diverse definitions, experiences and enactments of movements. Bringing together a range of practices, MOVEMENTS reflects on both the intimate scale of the body as it shifts through time and space, within transient gestures and encounters, and organized actions that provoke vital, unsettling change.
MOVEMENTS is made possible with support from Partners in Art
Image Credit
Photographs from Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel
Reflections on Transparency
Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel
TPW is delighted to present a new commission by Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel.
Reflections on Transparency is an examination of the transparent barriers that have become ubiquitous in sites of retail in light of COVID-19. Born of an interest in hostile architecture, public space and landscapes that elicit particular behaviours, this investigation meditates on the intersections between the politics of hygiene and disaster capitalism.
Benjamin and Sophia’s project will be posted on TPW’s Instagram from October 8 – 10, 2020.
Biographies
Benjamin de Boer (b. 1995, Attawandaron, ON) is a writer, researcher, and bookseller living in Tkaronto. They received their Honours BA in Philosophy and Archaeology from the University of Toronto in 2018. Benjamin can be found studying the melancholy poetics of our earth lyric and exploring their openness to improvisation within a practice of group enunciation. Favouring sympedagogic situations, Benjamin currently co-directs Hearth, an arts space founded alongside Rowan Lynch, Sameen Mahboubi, and Philip Leonard Ocampo.
Sophia Oppel (b. 1995) is an arts practitioner and researcher born and based in Tkaronto. Oppel’s work examines interfaces and infrastructures as sites of power, and their influences on embodied experience. Oppel received her BFA from OCAD University and is currently a co-director of Bunker 2 Gallery, and a Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto. Oppel has exhibited locally and internationally.
Reflections on Transparency is presented in the context of MOVEMENTS. As its title suggests, this online and site-specific program presents several projects by artists whose work references diverse definitions, experiences and enactments of movements. Bringing together a range of practices, MOVEMENTS reflects on both the intimate scale of the body as it shifts through time and space, within transient gestures and encounters, and organized actions that provoke vital, unsettling change.
MOVEMENTS is made possible with support from Partners in Art
Image Credit
Photographs from Benjamin de Boer and Sophia Oppel