Karen ann Donnachie & Andrea (Andy) Simionato. Juried Artist
Constellations
WebXR on the Styly platform
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
URL: https://unknowing.cc