The Red Earth Project (2019-)


Introduction
  1. Overview    
  2. Research
  3. A Lecture at Princeton

The Book
  1. About
  2. Red Earth in the Paris Review
  3. Themes
  4. Form
  5. Where to buy

Process and Output
  1. Conceptual Development
  2. Photography
  3. Prose
  4. Computational and Subjective Translation
  5. Digital to Physical
  6. Process 1: Process and Theory
  7. Process 2: Making
  8. Compositions

Selected Works
  1. Red Earth, The Book
  2. Ever Abeokuta
  3. Colonial Enterprise
  4. Red Earth
  5. Amor Fati
  6. Direct Translation Diptychs 1, 2, 3 & 4
  7. Sixteenth Century Technology
  8. How Can Time Become a Circle
  9. Deference
  10. Solitary Breath

Exhibitions & Performances
  1. Studio Hanniball
  2. Archive of Forgetfulness
  3. Listening to the Red Earth, a film

Community
The Red Earth Playlist

Shop

Related Works
  1. Planetary Portals

Next Steps

Object Int’l —
Info
  1. The Red Earth Project is an ongoing artistic, interdisciplinary study centred on prose reflections and machine translation, drawing attention to the precarious status of non-western cultural heritage, knowledge systems and practices in the increasingly dominant Western systems of data, virtual architectures and AI technologies. This research asks how alternative cosmologies can be better represented within virtual architectures powered by probabalistic computation. 

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4. Red Earth




Red Earth
Fine art print - Hahnemühle Museum Etching 350 gr
41 x 26cm 
Edition 1 of 3
2020
Including high end magnet frame from traditional framing company HALBE Rahmen GmbH - Classic Alu 8, schwarz matt
Museum glass: Weißglass


Details
This image catalyses the conceptual exploration of natural algorithmic forms. From tributaries of a river, to the structures of trees and the patterning in rocks introduce Red Earth, which moved this theoretical study and opened a my written poetic response.

Thoughts moved through non-linear time and space, the virtual, existing everywhere and nowhere, the immateriality and abstraction of a coordinate. 





From Red Earth

  •         I could open, I suppose,
  •         by describing what I currently see
  •         before me.