Exhibition

Yuri Pattison, '1014' and Joey Holder 'Adcredo - The Deep Belief Network'

2 Dec 2022 – 4 Dec 2022

Regular hours

Fri, 02 Dec
10:00 – 20:00
Sat, 03 Dec
10:00 – 20:00
Sun, 04 Dec
10:00 – 16:00

Free admission

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OTOKA takes over Broadway Gallery with audio visual installation '1014' by Yuri Pattison and an online exhibition of 'Adcredo - The Deep Belief Network' by Joey Holder.

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'1014' (2015) gives us a tour of Room 1014 in the Mira hotel, Hong Kong that was occupied by the whistleblower turned privacy activist Edward Snowden immediately following his departure from the US in 2013, and from where the Guardian first revealed his identity to the world. The artist, Yuri Pattison, created the film work 2 years after the event, intrigued by the transformation of this story into a revered Hollywood film.  Pattison’s film returns to the hotel location like one might make a pilgrimage to a movie location.

'1014' is lightly annotated with diagrams and text elements borrowed from the NSA and GCHQ documents that were leaked by Snowden, while also drawing from English translations of Chinese netizen slang. These annotated elements were then flattened by processing them with the anonymity tool, Anonymouth. The artist’s source videos are now hosted on a domain that was once controlled by Snowden when he was a teenager.

JOEY HOLDER - 'Adcredo - The Deep Belief Network', 2018

As an extension of Scene 4 you will discover Joey Holder’s 'Adcredo: The Deep Belief Network' (2018) with sound design by AJA (Aja Ireland) being shown online through the OTOKA website. The work exists against a techno-socio-political backdrop of fake news, conspiracy theory, cyber-espionage and political populism. Featuring Trump, Putin & Kanye along with a variety of famous memes, we’re made to question who we’d rather believe, who we have believed and what consequences that might create for cultural behaviour and our sense of self.

Taking a fictional data-analysis company called Adcredo (Latin word meaning to put trust in, to believe in, or to give credence to) as her starting point, Holder explores the role that online networks can play in the construction of belief. The work develops a series of avatars that Holder has worked with across the project. CGI talking heads stand in for Kanye West, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Peter Thiel alongside otherworldly creatures drawn from the artist’s online research into conspiracy theory and synchromysticism.

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CANDICE JACOBS

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Yuri Pattison

Joey Holder

Joey Holder

Aja Ireland

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