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Hive Mind Collective

Collision Gallery, Toronto, August 18-19 2022

Group exhibition with Josh Igwe, Fiona Stewart, Christine Dikonguè, Kahani Ploessl, Atharva Jadhav, Vladimir Kanic, Madison Cleary, Laura Dempsey, Casketnap, Dylan Usher, Sarah Itamah, Lewy180, TT (Tioluwani)



Hive Installation & Untitled 001

Planted among Laura Dempsey’s Untitled 001 sits Hive, Pollination, Neutron Star, and Brain Fungus, four code sketches by Kahani Ploessl. These sketches were created using Processing, generated real time animations on a CRT TV through a Raspberry Pi.

Nature may seem random and unpredictable, yet in its totality do we see patterns of its infinite cells. Hive, Pollination, Neutron Star, and Brain Fungus all follow this principle, building structures in accordance with their own biological impulses. Each sketch is generated in real time the same way an organism would function - the code is thinking, creating, and is never the same in each iteration. Hive, Pollination, Neutron Star, and Brain Fungus involves exploring the one cell in the many. How every organicism begins as one, growing and building as its biological code dictates. In Hive we see a structure of cells, moving both independently and collaboratively to create fluid motion and meaning out of its biological algorithms. In Pollination and Brain Fungus we see branching structures reach, bend, and connect from the beginnings of an origin point. And lastly, in Neutron Star we see the energy of our first single cell, flickering in a display of micro structures.


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