algorithmic-mega-death-superspell.exe
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen•Jun 07, 2025 — Aug 24, 2025
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Do we believe in our devices? Network-based technologies such as ChatGPT or Google Maps have become our closest companions: They know every path and every answer. While these algorithmic intelligences increasingly elude our comprehension, we still believe they may bring salvation. Sometimes, their workings seem so inscrutable that we take them for magic. This ambivalent relationship is at the heart of the exhibition «algorithmic-mega-death-superspell.exe» by St.Gallen-based artist Aramis Navarro (*1991 in Zurich/CH).
In his most comprehensive solo exhibition to date, Navarro explores algorithms as media of revelation and contemporary oracles. Language runs through his kaleidoscopic work as both material and method: Spoken lines of code turn into poems, fragments of algorithms into neon signs, letters into holy figures. His practice of typing thoughts and observations with a typewriter on recycled paper sheets often lays the groundwork for his pieces. From this evergrowing...More
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algorithmic-mega-death-superspell.exe
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen•Jun 07, 2025 — Aug 24, 2025
Press Release
Do we believe in our devices? Network-based technologies such as ChatGPT or Google Maps have become our closest companions: They know every path and every answer. While these algorithmic intelligences increasingly elude our comprehension, we still believe they may bring salvation. Sometimes, their workings seem so inscrutable that we take them for magic. This ambivalent relationship is at the heart of the exhibition «algorithmic-mega-death-superspell.exe» by St.Gallen-based artist Aramis Navarro (*1991 in Zurich/CH).
In his most comprehensive solo exhibition to date, Navarro explores algorithms as media of revelation and contemporary oracles. Language runs through his kaleidoscopic work as both material and method: Spoken lines of code turn into poems, fragments of algorithms into neon signs, letters into holy figures. His practice of typing thoughts and observations with a typewriter on recycled paper sheets often lays the groundwork for his pieces. From this evergrowing...More