Uncomputer
exhibition — Grailers DAO, Unit
Frieze London
2023-10-04
Entangled Others, self-contained 003
Unit London and GrailersDAO presented "Uncomputer," an exhibition inspired by Alexander Galloway's essay of the same name. The show celebrates the creative potential of error, indeterminacy, and randomness in code-based systems.
The exhibition explores the concept of the 'uncomputer,' which reveals and embraces the indeterminate and unpredictable qualities within computational structures. It challenges traditional understandings of computers as purely rational entities, instead highlighting how error, randomness, and unknowns have become integral to technoscientific knowledge. The artworks in the show demonstrate how these 'uncountable' digital elements can create a more nuanced understanding of our information age.
Artists
Kim Asendorf
Entangled Others
Jan Robert Leegte
Mathcastles
Rudxane
Yazid
Stevie P
Mia Forrest
Roope Rainisto
Thomas Lin Pedersen
Jorge Ledezema
Iskra Velitchkova
Emily Xie
Melissa Wiederrecht
Stefano Contiero
Featured Project
zero glimpse sunflower one (for unit)
Mathcastles
Mathcastles’ zero-knowledge artwork, crafted using a system for drawings that can never be known, but proved to exist through verifiable claims about their abstract features. Built with zk-SNARKs – cryptographic systems that allow statements about secret information to be proved and verified – this artwork gives form to the unknowable, and collides knowledge asymmetry with traditions of mark-making and abstraction in painting.