Jake Elwes: Data • Glitch • Utopia
In their first solo exhibition at Gazelli Art House, Jake Elwes looks to demystify the black box of artificial intelligence.
In Data • Glitch • Utopia, Jake Elwes brings together a body of work that demystifies, opens up, and plays with Artificial Intelligence (AI). From past to present, artworks range from digital pieces combining strange properties of data with human traces in technology, to more recent investigations seeking out alternative and more hopeful queer futures through AI and drag performance collaboration. The V&A commissioned Elwes to make a new iteration of The Zizi Show in 2020. This exhibition at Gazelli coincides with a display of Elwes’ commission at the V&A, on view from May 2023 to February 2024.
Elwes’ practice is based on their research into AI and Machine Learning, and instigates playful critiques of human and technological relationships via explorations into underlying codes, philosophies, and ethics. This show traces pathways through these technologies that offer insights and interventions into their dangers and potentialities. ‘From the physical remnants of fingers across iPhone screens, and an algorithm’s filthiest imaginations, to the dragged out fantasies of queering datasets, Jake’s work illuminates the fleshy figurations and fantastic failures of these digital processes’ (Dr. Joe Parslow).
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Jake Elwes, Closed Loop, 2017
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Jake Elwes, CUSP, 2019
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Jake Elwes, DaDa Da Ta, 2016
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Jake Elwes, Queering the Dataset Prints #1, 2021
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Jake Elwes, Queering the Dataset Prints #3, 2021
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Jake Elwes, Solid State, Component #2, 2015
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Jake Elwes, Solid State, Component #3, 2015
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Jake Elwes, Solid State, Component #6, 2015
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Jake Elwes, Zizi - Queering the Dataset (02), 2019
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Jake Elwes, A.I. Interprets A.I. Interpreting ‘Against Interpretation’ (Sontag 1966), 2023
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Jake Elwes, Digital Caress - Google Maps, 2015
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Jake Elwes, Digital Caress - Tinder, 2015
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Jake Elwes, Digital Whispers, 2016
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The British Journal of Photography | Jake Elwes
Sanjana Varghese interviews Jake Elwes about their show at the V&A and The Zizi Project, featuring their show that just opened at Gazelli Art House.Read more -
Cultural Wednesday | Jake Elwes
Jake Elwes' solo exhibition opening 1st of June featured as the exhibition to see this week on Catherine's Cultural Wednesday.Read more
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Widewalls | Jake Elwes
Widewalls writes a review on Jake Elwes' exhibition opening this week, Data • Glitch • Utopia.Read more -
Jake Elwes at the V&A
The V&A commissioned Jake Elwes to make a new iteration of The Zizi Show in 2020, which will open at their new Photography Centre. This...Read more
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Scene Magazine | Jake Elwes
Scene Magazine spotlights Jake Elwes' upcoming exhibition at Gazelli Art House, opening 1st of June.Read more -
i News | Jake Elwes
Florence Hallett speaks to Mila Askarova, Founder and CEO of Gazelli Art House, about A.I. and the market for digital arts. 'The profile of these...Read more