V2: Rigged, Felicity Hammond
Variations by Felicity Hammond
Join Felicity Hammond in QUAD Gallery 1 on Saturday 15 March for an exhibition tour of V2: Rigged.
Staged in four venues across the UK, Variations by Felicity Hammond is an evolving installation exploring the relationship between geological mining and data mining, image-making and machine learning. V2: Rigged is the second chapter of this project, following V1: Content Aware which was exhibited as a public realm installation as part of the Photoworks Weekender in Brighton, 2024. In Variations, Hammond uses the many landscapes associated with artificial intelligence (AI) to map how digital photographic material makes its journey from mineral to pixel; from the subsurface to the screen. The project aims to reflect on the entanglement of contemporary forms of image making – specifically those made using generative AI tools – with the politics of surveillance, data extraction, and the exploitation of land, resources and labour. Machine learning software relies on an ecosystem that extends far beyond the interfaces its users are presented with.
