PATTERN TESTS: TIME, CYCLES, AUTOMATA

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5 channel HD video installation · color · sound · 5 min loop

Inside the Ash Cloud factory in the Pearl River delta, the ERP – management software is in charge of efficiently managing and supervising human and machine labor. However, the cut-throat race for increased efficiency is making the artificial pace of machine processes clash with the biological rhythms of human labor. The video installation meditates on the implications that these new conditions of production have for architecture and the bodies inside them.

Read more in Het Nieuwe Instituut's webmagazine here.

joy-of-pronunciation joy-of-pronunciation joy-of-pronunciation Automated Landscapes: Time, cycles, automata, installation view, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut. Shenzhen & Hong Kong. 2019–2020
photos: Zhu Rui

PATTERN TESTS: TIME, CYCLES, AUTOMATA
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Project team
Aformal Academy: Merve Bedir (researcher and co-curator)
Het Nieuwe Instituut: Guus Beumer (artistic and general director), Marina Otero Verzier (director of research department), Marten Kuijpers (senior researcher and co-curator), Ludo Groen (researcher), Ellen Zoete (project manager), Mark van Veen (producer).

Film by
Juan Arturo García

Footage
Zhu Rui

Sound design
Kris Berle