< AANOLEIMS > by Lukas Malte Hoffmann

< AANOLEIMS > by Lukas Malte Hoffmann 

21.02.20 - 31.03.20 at M8 Art Space

Anomalies represent a logical limit at the core of machine learning. They open a space to relate to the understanding of AI not as synthesised intelligence but as a set of processes of pattern abstraction, recognition, extraction and generation based on our own data, our histories, assumptions, biases and approaches. What are we offering as the basis for the training, learning and modelling of patterns and how much ownership are we willing to take of the logics of our affect and sharing in this process? What impact does this have on our notion of touch as command and our relationship with technology, particularly forms designed to understand us? 

This multi-channel video work begins with the ocular, haptic and cognitive exercises we perform in daily choreography with our devices and their interfaces, our contact-commands. These gestures are often so habitual that they seem to be performed involuntarily by muscle memory as soon as we have the thought to gain access to our email, banking, memories or other resources. When this access is smooth and instant, there is no need to reflect on this process yet when our digital habits are interrupted by glitch or lag, we can perceive our previously compliant technology to be limiting us and making tacit our inability to operate in these systems outside of the interface. What does it mean if a phone or computer fails, makes a mistake, breaks a rule? 

This work mines the occurrence of anomalies in our digital experiences and how we can read them as an act of unexpected individuality or disobedience. How the momentary act of restricting our access to content can conjure the agency of the algorithm as a mediator to our desires, recognising the now visible mediator as other.

< AANOLEIMS > is part of an ongoing research project by the artist titled ‘Digital Subsistence’ which considers the abundance of digital access we have become used to. Instead of falling into a minimalist approach or refraining from the virtual world, it proposes a reformulation of how we engage with digital complexities and their aesthetics. 

< AANOLEIMS > by Lukas Malte Hoffmann is the third project in the new screening programme ‘Dialogue Model: I can’t hear myself without you listening’ for M8 Art Space curated by Edel O’ Reilly.

Artist:

Lukas Malte Hoffmann is researching instances in which digital and analogue systems overlap and intersect. In his work he utilises aesthetics as tools for resisting, altering, and proposing alternatives to systemically pre-set desires such as those of normalising market logics but also the acknowledgment of desires without objects and of desire as force rather than need. A recent graduate of the MA Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute, Lukas is also part of the collective Samet Yilmaz (k.i. beyoncé). Recent exhibitions include Konsthall Stockholm, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Galleria Titanik, Turku amongst others.

List of Works:

‘01-Training’, 2020. Video (mute) (02:57)

‘02-Learning’, 2020. Video (mute) (15:08) 

‘03-Model’, 2020. Video (mute) (04:58)

‘04-Anomalies’, 2020. Video (mute) (24:26) 

‘Dialogue Model: I can’t hear myself without you listening’ 

Olivia Abächerli, Bethany Crawford, Lukas Malte Hoffmann, Amanda Rice & Assem A. Hendawi

‘Dialogue Model: I can’t hear myself without you listening’ is an extended exhibition over four screenings at M8 Art Space featuring adapted projects by four international artists. Commencing in September 2019 and running until December 2020, it shares screen-based artistic research into the philosophical and existential aspects of various developments in the field of electrical engineering such as digital immortality, human-computer interaction, empathic interfaces and algorithmic governance. While the format of the programme is a sequence of multi-channel works by each artist, it is intended as a one extended project with the context and sensibility of each of the screenings interlacing. These feedback loops trace lines of tactile thinking with our simulated selves, synaptic scripts and speculative scenarios.

For further information contact Curator Edel O' Reilly ([email protected])