Splatterpool artspace is please to present sys(x)tem, a group show featuring five artists and one artist collective exhibiting new works. Within our contemporary digital culture, systems have assumed a central role in our daily lives in both overt and inconspicuous ways. Decision making and learning have become ever more dependent on these systems as we voluntarily submit increasingly detailed and private information about the way we conduct our personal and business matters. As systems continue to develop, even beyond the u... Read more

Splatterpool artspace is please to present sys(x)tem, a group show featuring five artists and one artist collective exhibiting new works.

Within our contemporary digital culture, systems have assumed a central role in our daily lives in both overt and inconspicuous ways. Decision making and learning have become ever more dependent on these systems as we voluntarily submit increasingly detailed and private information about the way we conduct our personal and business matters.

As systems continue to develop, even beyond the understanding of their designers, we can begin to see their patterns and analogousness to systems in nature. Failures, errors and glitches can be likened to mutations in evolutionary models. And as in their counterparts, these deviations often lead to the advancement of a system’s sophistication and survival — or ultimately, to new forms altogether.

sys(x)tem is a multidisciplinary exhibition with the common thread of a probing deconstructive process. It seeks to provide a conversational, playground context for the invited artists to make observations and pose questions on the function and dysfunction of systems with which we interface. If we consider the definition of system to be a whole compounded by several parts, the artists are here attempting to insert themselves as a component of disruption. But rather than disruptions at random (as in natural mutation), these are made in a deliberate fashion with focused intention. Through methods of intervention, the artists may succeed in revealing fresh insight into familiar questions within the contemporary art discourse concerning reality versus representation. Ideally, the resulting statements made here will not be seen as critical in either a positive or negative value; but rather, viewers will be challenged to be more aware of their interaction with systems in our digital and physical environments.