Andy Gracie
Londres, 1967.
Andy Gracie works across installation, robotics, sound, video and electronic media, combining artistic experimentation with technological research.
Artwork in the collection
Binaris massius, 2023
About the artwork
The work develops two overlapping narratives about the processes and phenomena of interactions within binary systems. The detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron stars serves as one system, and contemporary polarised ideologies serve as another. The bridging mechanism between them is the use of AI as a tool to enhance information on the one hand, and as an eraser of truth and meaning on the other. Interactions between massive systems generate strange results and new forms of information, while artificial intelligence plays a kind of schizophrenic role in data manipulation.
While the gravitational waves from neutron star mergers propagated through spacetime for tens of millions of years, confrontations between increasingly entrenched belief systems led to destabilising and coercive reinterpretations of value and truth.
Artistic career: Andy Gracie
Artistic practice and research
Works in disciplines such as installation, robotics, sound, video, and electronic media.
Career and projects
It uses scientific theory and practice to question our relationships with exploration and experimentation while also highlighting the relationship between art and science itself. Their work includes engagement with space research, cosmology and deep time, and includes an ongoing examination of semiotics, simulation theory and/or post-apocalyptic scenarios.