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arebyte Gallery is a London-based art organisation which supports the development of artists working across digital and emerging artforms.
Following in the long tradition of artists experimentation with new technologies, arebyte Gallery has led a pioneering programme since 2013, to much acclaim. From web-based work to multimedia installations including Virtual and Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Generated Images and 3D printing, the gallery commissions new works from emerging, as well as more established artists. The gallery supports multiple voices in digital cultures across the UK and internationally to bring innovative perspectives to art through new technologies.
Registered as a charity and operating as a studios provider throughout London, arebyte channels its rental income into its arts programme to deliver a series of exhibitions and online projects, with the support of additional private and public funders.
At the forefront of today’s digital art scene, arebyte Gallery offers an inspiring place to explore emerging media art with an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of art, new technologies, and social sciences.
Through a public engagement programme nurturing creative and digital skills, the gallery fosters a young and inclusive art community that reflects the diversity across Tower Hamlets, Newham and Greenwich.
AOS
AOS is a platform dedicated to artist videos, multimedia experiences and curatorial interventions utilising digital formats to address current political, economic and theoretical discussion, viewable 24/7 both online and via a screen in the gallery window of arebyte.
Real-Time Constraints
by arebyte
Real-Time Constraints features works by Gretchen Andrew, Sofia Crespo X Dark Fractures, DISNOVATION, Jake Elwes, Ben Grosser, Libby Heaney, and Joel Simon. Co-curated with Luba Elliott.
arebyte Gallery are pleased to announce Real-Time Constraints, a group exhibition featuring works by artists working within the realms of artificial intelligence, algorithms, machine learning, big data, and interventions in web-based platforms. The exhibition brings forward the complexities of the present-tense in light of the emergence of such technologies through works that are generated using real-time information pulled from the internet, or other sources including news items, message exchanges, memes and image banks. The works look critically at the current state of automated and autonomic computing to provide alternative narratives to data-driven and algorithmic approaches, referencing fake-news, gender bias and surveillance.
Taking the form of a browser plug-in, the exhibition reveals itself as a series of pop-ups where the works are disseminated over the duration of a typical working day, interrupting the screen to provide a ‘stopping cue’ from relentless scrolling, email notifications and other computer-centered, interface-driven work. Real-Time Constraints presents itself as a benevolent invasion - the size, quantity, content and sound of the pop-ups have been decided upon by each artist to feed into the networked performance. The exhibition is experienced through a synchronised global approach where viewers encounter the same pop-ups at the same time no matter where they are, amplifying the exhibition’s disturbance of mundanity across every time zone.
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Sarah Ann Banks - Reverse Wormholeby
by arebyte
arebyte Gallery is pleased to welcome the next artist on AOS (https://aos.arebyte.com/) - their online platform dedicated to artists videos, multimedia experiences and curatorial interventions utilising digital formats. Viewable 24/7.
Reverse Wormhole explores the existence of a cosmic creature with a random matter-generating portal for a head. As we follow her through space and time, she expels distorted life forms into existence.
Originally from Dallas, Texas, Sarah Ann Banks is an artist working primarily with 3D animation software. Banks’ works take shape based on popular imagery, art objects, and personal narratives. She uses the digital space to develop personalized and expansive worlds that build on one and other overtime. Banks is interested in the many ways 3D software can be utilized, from high scale production to the at home novice. She sees the overlap between these two ways of operating as the focal point for her creative process. Banks has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her work has been shown in Chicago, Santa Fe, Boston,New York, Germany, Greece, and Iceland.
arebyte Gallery is a London-based art organisation which supports the development of artists working across digital and emerging artforms.
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eccchobunny - 0x000000EF (CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED) by arebyte
The age of Anthropocene sees the onset of societal and environmental disasters, stemming from human involvement via imperialism, industrialism, globalization and capitalism. Intricately fabricated rules on how identities are expected to be played has created unique social illnesses and caused potentially irreversible damage to the world, both to the earth itself and to people. The sound in this piece is databent essays relevant to recognizing and seeing a way out, including works by bell hooks, Susan Sontag, José Esteban Muñoz and Umair Haque. Additional clip in video projections of the kiki demonstration provided by Elie Liakopoulos.
eccchobunny is a Chicago based new media artist working mainly with live video mixing and experimental 3D. However, they utilize a variety of mediums and techniques outside of this as well, whichever may be most appropriate for getting the idea out. Using technologically based tools, they explore current, rapidly shifting socio-political environments and the phenomenons and potentials within.
Initiated in 2019, Arebyte On Screen is a platform dedicated to artist videos, multimedia experiences and curatorial interventions utilising digital formats. AOS invites web-based artists, digital artists and curators from around the world to experiment with new forms of creating, curating and presenting art online.
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Snow Yunxue Fu - Conjoin (Chapter 3)
arebyte Gallery is pleased to welcome the next artist on AOS (https://aos.arebyte.com/) - their online platform dedicated to artists videos, multimedia experiences and curatorial interventions utilising digital formats. Viewable 24/7.
Snow Yunxue Fu with her work Conjoin (Chapter 3)
Commissioned Sound by Daniel Brookman & Studio Assistants Jun Young Kang and Ashley Liu
The collection of the floating liquid forms the shapes of the bodies together at times and then disintegrate into other objects and parts, underlining the connectivity we have with one another, in both material and immaterial ways. We have a long-term dilemma for we have a short-term body. Working with 3D software and CG imaging technology, Fu creates scenes of experimental abstraction that translate the concept of liminality into the subliminal digital experience.
Snow Yunxue Fu is a Chinese-born and New York-based new media artist, curator, and Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has formerly taught at other schools such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ox-bow School of Art and Artists Residency.
arebyte Gallery is a London-based art organisation which supports the development of artists working across digital and emerging artforms.
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Drawing with Code
by Edward Martin and arebyte
Drawing with Code is a workshop designed to teach the basics of how to code using Javascript (the coding language used to build the internet). In these fun and friendly sessions, you will learn how to draw basic animals and leave with skills to create your own at home. The workshop is run by artist Edward Martin. Edward creates work using video, code, sculptures and animation.
The workshop is open to any skill level. No prior knowledge of coding is needed.
arebyte’s Digital Art Club invites children 10+ to experiment creatively with digital tools. The series of free workshops offer opportunities to learn the foundations of coding, designing with 3D modeling software and machine learning in a fun and creative environment. Participants will be able to develop digital literacy and understand how technology is being used across the creative industries.The Digital Art Club will take place in the gallery on Saturday mornings (or online!), and will last approximately 1-2 hours. Each session will be free of charge, with no expected commitment to attend all sessions. In this first session, due to current circumstances, the Drawing With Code workshop is presented online as a series of videos.
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Best Effort Network - Olia Lialina
by arebyte gallery
arebyte Gallery are pleased to announce Best Effort Network, a series of new and re-made works from 2013 - 2020 by 90’s net art pioneer Olia Lialina. The exhibition comprises Summer (2013), Best Effort Network (2015/2020), and Hosted (2020). This exhibition will be Olia’s first solo presentation in London.Spanning more than 25 years, Olia Lialina’s work has made her an important voice in new media art and theory. Often gestural and illustrative, her works address the systematic nature of the Internet through manifestations of intimacy between hardware, software and human mediation. In addition to working solely, direct and ancillary collaborative efforts with other artists, websites and browsers are brought into play to reveal the complex networks of data flow.
arebyte Gallery is a London-based art organisation which supports the development of artists working across digital and emerging artforms.
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