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For the past year, I've been working with re|thread, the software art collective I'm a part of, on our biggest project yet: ๐’Ž๐’š๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’….

It's an exhibition that unveils the vast communities of coders and people that contribute to artworks in the digital age.

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Poster for myriad. White background with small orange text in the background. In black, the text reads "myriad" in the center, then "ten artworks, thousands of contributors" below, and "04/10 to 12/10, R1 Reactor Hall, rethread.art" in the bottom right corner.
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At the center of the exhibition will be ๐’๐’๐’‚๐’Ž, a sculpture created by re|thread.

We fetched the open source contributors of all software used in the exhibited artworks, from Linux to p5.js. More than 100k names are displayed, on screens and devices from different eras.

Preliminary render of "loam", a sculpture made out of different kinds of screens and machines.
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Here are the nine other works we exhibit:

๐‘จ ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’”๐’ ๐’…๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’• ๐’‘๐’‚๐’”๐’•, by Steve Ashby, reinterprets color scale data of video sources as control sources for sound creation via note selection, amplitude modulation, and other parameters.

Cover art for "A not so distant past"
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๐‘จ๐’‘๐’๐’„๐’“๐’š๐’‘๐’‰, by Nicolas Boillot (@fluate), explores the implications of artificial intelligence imitating human learning and creativity. Can AI fully replace human authors, or does it produce unidentifiable, dubious, or fraudulent works?
Photo of "Apocryph"
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๐‘ซ๐’†๐’‚๐’“ ๐‘จ๐’Š, by Fred Wordie, showcases a selection of AI-written letters; Each penned using algorithmic generated handwriting and inviting us to ask whether "I miss you" scrawled on the back of a postcard is worth more than 5000 words of AI love?
Close-up photo of a letter that appears to be handwritten, from "Dear Ai"
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๐‘ฎ๐’๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’†๐’, by Jonas Johansson, reflects the artist's connection to his seaside hometown and the bittersweet anticipation of life without his father, a painter of light who inspired him, in this very personal work.
Screen capture of "Glommen"
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๐‘ฐ๐’๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐‘บ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘บ๐’๐’“๐’•๐’†๐’“, by Agoston Nagy, is a drawing machine caught in an unending cycle of making very slow movements, echoing ancient methods of conceptualizing ideas in the sand.
Photo of "Infinite Sand Sorter"
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๐‘ด๐’†๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’•๐’๐’–๐’„๐’‰, by Hรฅkan Lidbo & Per-Olov Jernberg, is a 6ร—1 meter touch surface where visitors can discover hundreds of sounds, rhythms and animations, all perfectly synchronized. It is a collaborative musical instrument and visualizer that requires no prior knowledge.
Photo of "Megatouch"
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๐‘ท๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ช๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’†, by nar.interactive, is an interactive dance performance that explores the communication of bodily discomforts and the dynamics of witnessing others' pain. The dancer's chronic pain is represented by an interactive costume called the soma extension.
Photo of Dila Demir (from nar.interactive) performing "Pain Creature"
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๐‘น๐‘ฌ๐‘ณ๐‘จ๐‘ฟ๐‘น๐‘ฌ๐‘ณ๐‘จ๐‘ฟ๐‘น๐‘ฌ๐‘ณ๐‘จ๐‘ฟ, by Yuvia Maini, discusses the individual pursuit of "presence" in Western mindfulness culture. Stemming from ancient collective traditions, the work explores what happens when the path to inner peace is commodified.
Photo of a man sitting down, wearing an EEG reader, in front of two circular visualizations. Black background.
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Last but not least, ๐‘พ๐’‰๐’š ๐‘จ๐’Ž ๐‘ฐ ๐‘บ๐’†๐’†๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’”?, by Ivana Tkalฤiฤ‡, is a video installation that examines how digital landscapes, algorithms, and personalized news feeds create "parallel information universes," isolating users within ideological bubbles.
Image still from "Why Am I Seeing This?"
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The venue is the R1 Reactor Hall, Sweden's first nuclear research reactor, now decommissioned.

Read more about the exhibition and, if you're around Stockholm, get tickets here: rethread.art/projects/myriad/

Photos: Wikimedia
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Old black-and-white photo of the Reactor Hall
Modern colorful photo of the Reactor Hall

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