Content Aware Instagram, digital art, 2018

Mindful practices, such as the arts, and curiosity-driven work, such as the sciences, are constrained by the monetarily motivated capitalist system to create valuable objects and discoveries which serve the system, doing away with nuance, chaos, boredom, and unanswerable questions. The over-value put on progress, efficiency, and predictably have lead us to abandon our local social infrastructure for Facebook groups and our wildflower prairies for monoculture Monsanto corn. My critique is anti-capitalist and especially anti-attention economy. My process translates human actions and images into abstractions through machines to cause what is labeled in a systematic monetarily motivated process as useless errors. Between the machine-made marks and the hand in the work, a conclusive relationship between human and machine never formulates. Sometimes this is as an interactive installation, allowing the participant to see their impact on a system in an analog way. Other times this is the underlying context for static artworks.