Student Show
Facets + Highlights
12 Jul 2018 – 15 Jul 2018
Event times
PRIVATE VIEW
Thursday 12 July // 6-9pm
Open to public Friday 13 July until Sunday 15 July // 10am-7pm (Sunday hours 10am-4pm)
Cost of entry
FREE EVENT
Laurie Grove Baths
Address
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- London
England - SE14 6NH
- United Kingdom
We would like to invite you to the 'Facets + Highlights' exhibition as part of the 'Mirror Mirror' - MA Digital Culture Expo 2018
About
Presenting Facets + Highlights as part of Mirror Mirror offers Compiler an opportunity to re-examine work from the past year and reflect on themes and questions raised in the shifting context of the annual MA Digital Culture expo.Twin Pixel, ‘music/encryption boxes’ from Art:Work and the automated online gallery from ≈ Pretty Close ≈ each demonstrate a different approach taken towards investigating the socio-political challenges of digital culture. However, they also mark the changing face of interaction for Compiler, the evolving discourse with their audience, computational processes and each other.
The machine of Compiler is now more than the sum of its parts. Through this direct invitation of reflection from Mirror Mirror, we see that the technical, social and organisational components, which are usually rendered invisible when well executed, are in fact in themselves creative, providing the backdrop for the playing out of the desired dialogue. The study of these internal operations echoes George Yúdice’s ‘collaboration’ (2004), which emphasises the forms of labour involved in any event or project, and suggests the need for a more critical approach and analysis of them.
With the aim of rendering these internal operations transparent to both our audience and ourselves, Facets + Highlights actively uses the conception of memory as the future and past implicated in the present and of the archive as a ‘pledge to the future’ (Derrida, 1995). In doing so, it pokes at the interfaces and intersections of organisational, conceptual and aesthetic work within Compiler, and reflects them as reciprocal domains of labour.
Derrida, J. (1995) Archive Fever
Yúdice, G. (2004) The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era
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