Morning light on the very last day

Whether algorithmic, biological, or social, we live enmeshed in codes and as participants in expanding ecologies of sensory systems both human and non-human. Through the rise of computer vision and machine learning, these ecologies increasingly also include machines.

Morning light on the very last day (2019) is named after a fragment from the notebook of Franz Kafka. It’s part of a period of work that juxtaposes human and algorithmic attempts to process, catalogue, and make meaning of this networked perceptive experience. Each begins as a photograph or photographic collage, manipulated through a sorting algorithm and then relayered digitally “by hand.”