Image Credit: Felicity Hammond V1: Content Aware at Jubilee Square is the first iteration of Ampersand / Photoworks Fellowship artist Felicity Hammond’s new body of work Variations.
Staged in four venues across the UK, Variations is an evolving installation exploring the relationship between geological and data mining, between image-making and machine learning.
V1: Content Aware, reflects on shipping containers which carry the raw materials that fuel our digital economy. As they await their journeys, they are assigned numbers, formed into code, traversing the same bodies of water that house the cables carrying data within our global communication systems. En masse, shipping containers appear like pixels, towered on cargo ships the size of buildings, providing us with a picture of the planetary scale of extraction.
In V1: Content Aware, the pixelated image colliding mining landscapes with digitality, where the digitally produced image is adhered directly onto the surface of the container. The container does not just display images, but also captures them, extracting image data from a public site, gathering material for the variations that follow.
Variations is commissioned through the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship, a unique biennial opportunity that supports a mid-career artist to create and exhibit a new body of work. V1: Content Aware is presented as a collaboration between Photoworks and Dreamy Place, supported by Ampersand, Arts Council England and Spectrum.
Photoworks champions photography for everyone. We are an international platform, global in reach, and have provided opportunities for artists and audiences since 1995.
Our programme brings transformative experiences to audiences and opens up new ways to encounter photography. Photoworks is a registered charity and the only organisation with a national remit for photography in England. Our work is supported by public funding through Arts Council England’s National Portfolio.
What to expect
A public art installation by artist Felicity Hammond housed in a shipping container in Brighton's Jubilee Square. This artwork uses installation, collage and AI to connect geological and data mining. Showing in Brighton as part of Photoworks Weekender and Dreamy Place, this is the first iteration of Variations, an evolving series of installations by Felicity Hammond with future versions to be shown in London, Derby and Edinburgh.
No booking or ticketing required. Free, just turn up.
Accessibility and inclusion
Free
Wheelchair accessible
Audience target/s
Everyone
Audience type / suitability
Everyone
Organiser
A collaboration between Photoworks and Dreamy Place