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In a hybrid digital/print artist project, EDAA finalist Kahani Ploessl presents BRUSH.jpeg, a coded drawing interface that replaces conventional brushes with web-sourced images smeared into glitched compositions that critique the concealment of labour and authorship in AI-generated content.
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Originally written in response to Angeline Simon’s exhibition at the Helen Christou Gallery. A longer version can be found on the University of Lethbridge website.
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At the beginning of the pandemic’s first wave, Rhiannon Vogl had the unique opportunity to experience Chrysanne Stathacos’ work “1-900 Mirror Mirror” at Cooper Cole, Toronto. The interactive installation was first exhibited in New York in the 1990s in response to the AIDS crisis and continues to comfort and inspire as we struggle to envisage the future.