Adorable Big Brother
Zheng Mahler
2014/Australia
〈The Master Algorithm〉, 2019.
Hologram installation
3D Animation, 9 holographic ventilators, blue tooth sound, two-channel speaker, headphones
Dimensions variable, video 15 min 24 sec
Courtesy of the artist
Zheng Mahler is a duo consisting of an artist Royce Ng (born in 1983, Australia) and an anthropologist Daisy Bisenieks (born in 1983, Australia), working together on research intensive, community based, site-specific projects often utilizing digital media, performances, and installation to explore relationships between art and research practice. Drawing from each other’s respective backgrounds, they examine the limits as well as the methods and strategies of expanding both their familiar disciplines while experimenting with new interdisciplinary possibilities or cross pollinations, where anthropological approaches are applied to art practice and artistic methodologies are utilized as research exercises in the studies of anthropology. Together they have exhibited, performed, and participated in numerous art spaces, institutions, and residencies, working alongside various communities in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the US. Zheng Mahler has shown their works, especially at Shanghai Biennale 2021; Taipei Arts Festival 2020; New Vision Festival Hong Kong 2018; New Visual Arts Performance Biennale New York 2015; Busan Biennale 2012; and Gwangju Biennale 2012.
The Master Algorithm is installed as a holographic projection of Qiu Hao, the human personification of the master algorithm, a figure which mutates, grows and disappears into clouds of data that re-materialize as techno-orientalist nightmares, Asian algorithmic utopias, and cityscapes. Speaking in multiple tongues through computer-generated voices, Qiu Hao The Master Algorithm contains multitudes and takes on different personas to narrate different stories, reciting a chronological sci-fi history of the fourth industrial revolution in China “sub specie aeternitatis.” Each Chinese techno-utopia is narrated through vignettes moving backwards in time, linking each scenario concretely with the possibilities already embedded in the present.
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