WATCHING

As AI increasingly observes its own outputs—watching itself, watching us—its resulting simulations fall farther and farther away from reality. In his new solo show WATCHING, ripcache rematerializes the phenomena of this recursive watching, asking a question for a new age – of Chat, of users, of us: Who is watching you?

WATCHING opens tonight — RSVP below.

When an exoplanet passes in front of its star, part of the starlight filters through its atmosphere. The resulting spectral fingerprint is used by scientists to mark the planet’s potential for life – guiding our perpetual cosmic surveillance for life outside our galaxy. Wanderer, a generative artwork by Ashley Zelinskie and Jeres, portrays this search with its translation of the visible spectrum into vibrant expressions of color and motion.

Join us this Saturday from 5-7pm for a conversation and reception to celebrate Heft Release XII, created in coordination with the scientists at NASA / ESA Webb and STsCI.

Luke Shannon’s plotter-scanner has returned to HEFT. Now on view inside WATCHING, the machine extends this exhibit’s conversation into the physical realm at a personal scale: a hybrid device that sees, reads, and replicates this vision through mechanical precision.

Commissions are open again while the machine is installed — availability is limited.