James Bridle – Failing to Distinguish Between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky
Opening: 21 April 2017, 6pm
22 April – 29 July 2017Glogauer Str. 17, 10999 Berlin
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James Bridle
FRIDAY, 21 APRIL 2017/English version, German version below
NOME is pleased to open "Failing to Distinguish Between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky", a solo show by James Bridle, at the gallery’s new location at Glogauer Str. 17, 10999 Berlin-Kreuzberg tomorrow.
The title of this exhibition is taken from an accident report into a fatal crash involving an automobile whose self-driving system failed to alert its human driver to an oncoming hazard. The autonomous car and the issues it raises stand in for many of the questions facing us today — from our relationship to technology and artificial intelligence, to the automation of labour and the political opacity of complex systems.
James Bridle worked with software and geography to create the components for his own self-driving car: an autonomous vehicle which learns to get lost. Using freely available tools and research papers, through a process of engineering and self-education, the artist seeks to understand both how to appropriate contemporary technologies for divergent purposes, and, when necessary, how to resist them.
James Bridle is a British artist, writer, and theorist based in Athens. Bridle’s installations and works have been commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Hayward Gallery, and The Photographers’ Gallery, London; FACT, Liverpool; the Istanbul Design Biennale and the Oslo Architecture Triennale. His work has been shown at major international institutions including the Barbican and the Whitechapel Gallery, London; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt; ZKM, Karlsruhe; MoMA, New York; and the National Arts Center, Tokyo.
/Deutsche Version
NOME freut sich, morgen die Einzelausstellung Failing to Distinguish Between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky des Künstlers James Bridle in den neuen Räumlichkeiten der Galerie in der Glogauer Str. 17, 10999 Berlin-Kreuzberg zu eröffnen.
Der Titel der Ausstellung stammt aus einem Unfallbericht eines fatalen Zusammenstoßes, an dem ein selbstfahrendes Fahrzeug beteiligt war, dessen System seinen menschlichen Fahrer nicht vor der bevorstehenden Bedrohung gewarnt hatte. Das autonome Auto und die damit einhergehenden Bedenken stehen stellvertretend für viele Fragen, mit denen wir uns heute konfrontiert sehen — angefangen von unserer Beziehung zu Technologie und Künstlicher Intelligenz, bis hin zur Automatisierung von Arbeit und der politischen Undurchsichtigkeit komplexer Systeme.
James Bridle hat Software und Geographie zusammengebracht, um die Bestandteile seines eigenen selbstfahrenden Autos zu entwickeln: ein autonomes Fahrzeug, das lernt sich zu verfahren. Unter Verwendung frei verfügbarer Instrumente und wissenschaftlicher Forschungsberichte sowie durch ingenieurwissenschaftliche Prozesse und Selbstbildung versucht der Künstler zu verstehen, wie er sich aktuelle Technologien für unterschiedliche Zwecke zu eigen machen, sich diesen aber auch, falls erforderlich, widersetzen kann.
James Bridle ist ein in Athen lebender britischer Künstler, Autor und Wissenschaftler. Bridle hat Installationen und Arbeiten im Auftrag der Serpentine Galleries, des Victoria and Albert Museums, der Hayward Gallery und der Photographers’ Gallery in London kreiert, sowie für FACT in Liverpool, die Istanbul Design Biennale und die Oslo Architecture Triennale. Seine Arbeiten wurden weltweit in großen Ausstellungshäusern und Institutionen gezeigt, darunter das Barbican und die Whitechapel Gallery in London, das KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, das Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, das ZKM in Karlsruhe, das MoMA in New York und das National Arts Center in Tokio.
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