48h Wilhelmsburg Speical
Ausstellung/Exhibition:
Eröffnung/Opening
Freitag: 08.06.2024, 18.00 h
Ausstellung: 08.–09.06.2024
Öffnungszeiten
Samstag & Sonntag : 14.00–18.00 h
Sieldeich 36
20539 Hamburg
About Platform Specters
Platform Specters reveals otherwise invisible aspects of the internet, from the underlying structures of software to the systems that enable anonymous labor. The exhibition includes two projects. The works in Paradise stretch and deconstruct the architectures of template-based websites and plugins (such as image carousels and slideshows). Kelley reprograms them to highlight and make visible features that would otherwise be imperceptible, obfuscating their intended function and revealing, fracturing, and retooling their underlying form. In Virtual Worker Diaries, Kelley raises questions about the layers of obfuscation inherent to micro-labor platforms—anonymous employers hiring anonymous workers to perform tasks in a context vacuum. Working within the confines of these systems, the artist collaborates with (commissions) anonymous virtual workers to bring their stories to life as speculative portraits and voiced narration. What we are left with are works that assert truth and indexicality even though they are—at the same time—evidently fictions composed from the voices, images, and effort of numerous real people. In this way, they aren’t simply imagined, but the embodiment of a collective imagination.
Forest Kelley is an artist and experimental composer whose work visualizes hidden facets of social systems and technologies. He has exhibited in galleries including 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Clamp Art, New York; Filter Space, Chicago; Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam; and SF Camerawork, San Francisco. In 2022 he produced the installation Their Memories Also Mine at Veddel Space, Hamburg in collaboration with artists Duygu Ağal (Hamburg/Berlin), Derya Yildirim (Hamburg/Berlin), and James Enos (US). He was recognized with the 2020 Imagemaker Award by the Society for Photographic Education. In 2018, he contributed music to Academy Award-nominated and Criterion Collection-selected documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening. Kelley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Forest Kelley is an artist and experimental composer whose work visualizes hidden facets of social systems and technologies. He has exhibited in galleries including 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Clamp Art, New York; Filter Space, Chicago; Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam; and SF Camerawork, San Francisco. In 2022 he produced the installation Their Memories Also Mine at Veddel Space, Hamburg in collaboration with artists Duygu Ağal (Hamburg/Berlin), Derya Yildirim (Hamburg/Berlin), and James Enos (US). He released the full-length experimental album Silt on the label ENXPL (Enmossed + Psychic Liberation), Pisgah Forest,
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