Amateur Detection (v.1) is the first in an ongoing exhibition series at V/A that brings together artists who make meaning by manipulating and re-mapping the use of image-making machines. Free from the black box of fixed-architecture software or opaque algorithms; they design their own, or modify pre-existing, apparatuses for shaping time-based media. The work is crafted through tactile and physical means - steadily guiding waveforms, dissolving light into luminous architectures, navigating syntax through video frame sync or decoding analog logic systems. Rather than seeking the quick-fix of the “effect”, they synthesize concept, process and form through an ongoing process of detecting and exploring deviations in a system or tool - by testing its limits and pressing farther.
