CV2024 - Uncomputable

‘Ask cryptographers about the "uncomputable" and they will respond: how much computing power do you have at your disposal? Can you afford to crunch the numbers until the sun burns out?’ - Alexander Galloway.

UNCOMPUTABLE is an experimental project for artists and others, playfully probing computational limits that intersect art, technology, ecology, and justice. The project incorporates:

• the creation of artworks, including installations, sound artworks, videos, experimental interfaces, and instruments.
• the staging of performances, workshops and other pedagogical programs
• the curation and production of events, performances and talks
• writing, publishing and sharing of resources

CREATIVE VICTORIA funding will support the performance program, commissioning works by artists, musicians, and researchers.

Key Documents

Creative Support Material

• Curatorial projects: examples of curatorial projects by Joel Stern and collaborators

Eavesdropping (2018-19)

Ventriloquy (2019)

Machine Listening (2020-ongoing)

UNCOMPUTABLE Contributing Artists

• Roslyn Orlando is a multidisciplinary artist working across live performance, video, text and experimental music. Her work explores the ways in which new technologies produce language, communication and meaning.

• Monica Lim is a Malaysian-born Australian sound artist whose work spans installations, performance art, contemporary dance and screen.

• Catherine Ryan uses performance, sound, text, video and installationto prompt questions and debate about the present social order - particularly about gaps and silences in public discourse where urgent social issues are not confronted, or where the collective political imaginary has proven inadequate to the challenges of the present.

• Established in 2020 by Sean Dockray, James Parker, and Joel Stern, Machine Listening is a platform for collaborative research and artistic experimentation, focused on the political and aesthetic dimensions of the computation of sound and speech