Participated in “SOURCE” by Feral File

Participated in “SOURCE” by Feral File

“SOURSE”, retrospective / non-commercial exhibition curated by Operator, 0xDEAFBEEF, Casey Reas (Sep 19 2023).

The artworks included in SOURCE were discussed by three curators and ultimately narrowed down from hundreds of artworks to two dozen, including mimizu by qubibi. They said works presented here were iconic and representative of wider communities, and also expand people’s understanding of what generative art can be.

[…] SOURCE is an alliance between Operator (Ania Catherine, Dejha Ti), 0xDEAFBEEF, and Casey REAS. An exhibition of artworks that all use software as a medium, our reason for naming it SOURCE was two-fold: as both a reference to “source code” and also the “source” of something that’s rapidly emerging and evolving. For this exhibition — the third non-commercial exhibition in Feral File’s history — we’re presenting a selection of artists and artworks created with code. This isn’t an attempt at a survey exhibition or defining a new canon, this is simply a selection of work that the four of us are thinking about right now. For those of us in the middle of art, code, and blockchains for the last few years, there’s been little to no time to pause and reflect on what has happened. SOURCE is our attempt to do that, collaboratively. […] A Moment of Reflection (Feral File, 2023)

At this online exhibition, mimizu on teia was showcased. Also qubibi contributed an article to the journal.

[…] The core code that I used in "Mimizu" is the same as the one in "hello world." One day, I became fascinated by the unintentional boundaries that emerged when I was playing with colors in Photoshop. While I was recreating those lines in code, a moving pattern appeared by chance. Nowadays, this has become so generalized that it's even used as an effect in tools under the name of Turing Patterns. However, at the time, it was a shock to me. The emotion born at that moment might have been a mix of awe and perhaps even jealousy towards this uncharted depiction. If "source" is understood to mean "origin," then the emotions that arose at that time could be considered the source of all of my generative art. As a result of my contemplation about how I could turn this depiction into an artwork, "hello world" was born in 2010. Even if the theme for that work was "boundaries," it was a beginning rather than an end, just as the name of the piece suggests. The work "hello world" quickly consumed my time and continued to evolve over the years, branching into various depictions. Eventually, boundaries evolved into a collection of lines, and the artwork "Ongaku Mimizu" (music worm) was born in 2018. It was three years later that "Mimizu" was released as an NFT. Inspired by Jonas Mekas, who sold individual frames of his films as photographs, it was almost as if I decided to slice up "Ongaku Mimizu" and start the Mimizu Shop. Any leftovers go into Leftover. The storage is the Storeroom. The piece "wiwizn" was born by flipping "Mimizu" upside down; lately, a grainy texture has appeared in my artworks, and these were depicted with the death of "Mimizu" in mind. The cells that are bound together when alive will disintegrate upon its decease. Will they eventually become sand, or perhaps give rise to mushrooms? It might seem contradictory to what I'm doing, though I don't necessarily aim for a sustained relationship with my artworks, nor do I believe that continuous attempts are crucial for the artworks themselves. It's just that my dialogue with this depiction simply isn't over yet. […] A Missive from the Artist Qubibi Around the Exhibition SOURCE (Kazumasa Teshigawara, 2023)

Exhibition: SOURCE

Artists: Anna Lucia and Gee's Bend Quilters, Holly Herndon + Mat Dryhurst, Mathcastles, Matt Kane, Mitchell F. Chan, Sarah Zucker, Steve Pikelny, Godmin, Iskra Velitchkova + Zach Lieberman, Maya Man, qubibi, Ross Goodwin, Travess Smalley, Emily Xie, Siebren Versteeg, Harm van den Dorpel, DADA, Jonas Lund, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mario Klingemann, Melissa Wiederrecht, Sasha Stiles, Sarah Friend, Primavera De Filippi, Fingacode

Artwork: mimizu

Venue: Online

Duration: Sep 19 2023

URL: https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/source https://feralfile.com/journal/close-up/a-missive-from-the-artist-qubibi-around-the-exhibition-source