custom software, silent, video camera, computer, projector, lighting, infinite (live generation).
Collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation © Camille Utterback
What does it mean to create art in a world shaped by data? In Run the Code, contemporary artists harness algorithms and generative AI models to create powerful, thought-provoking works that explore nature, art history, internet culture, and human behavior. This immersive exhibition transforms digital information into sensory works of art. Together, these artworks demonstrate that algorithms can be more than technical tools — they can also serve as a creative medium.
Highlighted from the Thoma Foundation’s Digital and Media Art Collection, Camille Utterback's Untitled 5 (2004) will be on display in the exhibition. Untitled 5 invites viewers to become part of the artwork through interactive systems responding to your movement, touch, and presence creating digital brushstrokes and abstract shapes.
“A network of gray lines flickers around one's body and immediately indicates your presence. A colored line is drawn along your trajectory. When you leave the installation this line is filled with tiny marks. Some responses are direct and immediate. Other behaviors evolve over time, based on the flow of people in a space. When you leave the installation, your line is filled with tiny marks. These marks can now be pushed from their location by other people's movement, conceptually linking disparate moments in time," Utterback states in describing how she programmed the algorithm to behave.
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