Love, Data, & Bots
KoloWn 2024 Review
Thank you for supporting us in 2024. Our theme of exploration for 2024 was "Living on the Edge" There were turns, delays and diversions from the original plan but here are some of the highlights:
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January / Manila / Pinkhouse IG Stories
We printed our memes from our IG stories and made installation on a semi-private room but the main show was on IG stories of PinkHouse.
photo by Pinkhouse
Transmission
February / Manila / ALT Fair - The Drawing Room
Exhibited in ALT under Drawing Room Gallery. We want to continue this series for 2025. This work is inspired by our experiences in street art and net art. street decay meets data corruption. "Transmission" will also be the theme of our exploration for 2025.
Proof-Of-Work
July / Toronto / Gallery TPW -4th Kamias Triennial
co-curated by Patrick Cruz, Su-Ying Lee and Karie Liao
This is a continuation of the series started in 2022. It is a data gathering project.
photo by Anne Amores
Ghost_in_the_Machine
Sept-Dec / Seoul / Leeum Museum of Art
Curators: Hyo Gyoung Jeon, Jiwon Yu
Artistic Director: Rirkrit Tiravanija
The work explores themes of remote work, troll farms, virtual assistance, and the effects of the digital age on our daily lives. Audiences can use their own smartphones to control the installation. The project prompts us to question the roles of the human laborers performing menial tasks and the AI performing intellectual tasks in the virtual world. It asks us to consider who are the ghosts and who are the machines in this digital age.
photo by Leeum Museum of Art / Special thanks to Drawing Room Gallery
GhostWriter
Nov-March / Manila / Ateneo Art Gallery
GhostWriter scraps news headlines from Philippine news sites and creates sci-fi stories based on those and from audience submitted words. The work uses GPT 4o LLM (Large Language Model) and it updates twice daily. You can read the generated stories here
The work is a response to the proliferation of fake news and the possible impact of AI in our lives.