[ISEA2023] Artist Statement: Guillemette Legrand & Vincent Thornhill — Spectral Plain

Artist Statement

Juried artwork. Exhibition ‘AI, Kombucha, and Cyberfeminism’ at École des Arts Décoratifs, May 16 – 21

Spectral Plain is an interactive game-installation, exploring the capacity for AI and randomized technologies to foster forms of co-creation in- and between humans. See
https://www.mu.nl/en/about/agenda/spectral-plain

In collaboration with Isaac Clarke, Zach Furniss, Mārcis Lapiņš, Filip Setmanuk, and Jim Zweerts. Supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (NL) and Stimuleringsfonds and Cultuur Eindhoven (NL).

  • Guillemette Legrand (FR) uses multidimensional installations, playable game environments, performances, films and textile making to mythologise the machine gaze, and materialise different imagination of the human-machine continuum. Guillemette is one half of the practice Legrand Jäger. [source: https://v2.nl/people/guillemette-legrand] https://studiolegrandjager.com/projects
  • Vincent Thornhill is an artist and designer; a PhD researcher at KU Leuven / LUCA School of Arts, Belgium; and educator in the Information Design Masters at the Design Academy Eindhoven, NL. Through his practice he conducts a re-reading of digital image technology, focusing on ideals and values present within digital image processing algorithms. Vincent’s work takes the form of performative presentations and video installations, with recent exhibitions including: A/D/O, New York; Bureau Europa, Maastricht; V2_ Lab for Unstable Media, Rotterdam; and the Istanbul Design Biennial. https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/vincent-thornhill