We wish to pay our respects to the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and waters on which we operate, the Ngunawal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and this land always has been and always will be Aboriginal land.

ANOTHER/S/KIN
20 OCT - 13 NOV 2022

Within “Another/s/Kin” Maddie Hepner and Rory Gillen undertook a residency within each other's internet/s. This residency involved the exchange of social media accounts and user data to explore how curated feeds influence online experience, and how those feeds react to a hijacking. In doing this, they undertook a subjective analysis of a subjective network. Having both worked previously with the internet’s compulsion to increasingly divide us algorithmically and ideologically, the artists aim to perform a radical act of transparency. They ask, ‘how does my feed inform what I know’? This action of empathy also explores the nature of data collection and the voyeuristic exercise of witnessing. How does having someone directly looking at your data feel different to a corporation removing analysing it all, does it make the collection more invasive? Does it make it more real? This show shares the results of their observations and collaboration. The final show will share the results of their observations and collaboration.

Exhibition Team

Organiser: Sophia Childs and Emily O’Neill

Curators: Rory Gillen and Maddie Hepner

ANOTHER/S/KIN: EMPATHY AND EXCAVATION ARTIST TALK RECORDING

In conjunction with Maddie Hepner and Rory Gillen’s exhibition Another/s/Kin, join the artists for a discussion about their work and months-long collaboration in their exchanging and analysis of each others social media feeds, moderated by Head of Photography and Media Arts at the ANU School of Art and Design Katrina Sluis.

Hear both of them talk about their personal experiences of taking a peak in the others vulnerable parts of the Internet and how their collaboration evolved with the evolution of each others feeds. How does your algorithm see and speak to you?

To view the recording of this public program, please email us at contact@tributaryprojects.xyz

 
 
 

Tributary Projects is supported by Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres.

Tributary Projects acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters in which we operate, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, as well as the Ngarigu people and others who traded on, traveled through, and connected with this country, and continue to do so. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders and acknowledge that sovereignty of these lands was never ceded.