The Indistinct Ephemera of Now included work by Ingmar Apinis, Sue Beyer, Linda Loh, Simon Rankin, Angela Rossitto who all make work informed by postdigital, post internet and post AI concerns.
In an increasingly digitised world, we ask what it is to be human. The artists in this exhibition find common ground in ideas that point to “a cultural change that is occurring and an attempt to understand the ways in which technology shapes the things we make, as well as the ways in which we in turn perceive these things” (Paul 2023, 251). Topics like climate change, financial inequalities, the internet, social media, and the advent of AI, are a part of today’s dominant cultural mode and can be collectively referred to as the Metacrisis. Despite this bend in history, a sense of hope prevails in the work these artist’s make.
Sue Beyer uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on ideas relating to Instruction-based Art, transformation and the in-between. She joins disparate objects and mediums to create digital combines, a new genre that uses the metadata in a blockchain smart contract as a conceptual glue. Her work tells personal stories and makes meaning through a type of oscillation; a central idea found in Metamodernism.
The Indistinct Ephemera of Now was curated for Sol Gallery, Melbourne in 2024.
