It’s Complicated
Elias Wessel

These photographs serve as reflections and metaphors to the indistinct boundaries between man and machine –inviting viewers to rethink digital media and consider the relativistic, incomplete, and fragmented worldview we consume daily. Wessel is concerned with the psychophysiological experience of a visual reality. Artificial Intelligence becomes a focal point with the visual-to-text recognition “poems” (Is Possibly Art; Textfetzen), accompanying each photograph. The artist seeks to visualize questions such as “How does digital space react to analog space?” or “How can we find clear meaning in the mass of information noise, without a discernible, trusted source?”

Systems at Play is a sound installation in collaboration with musician Natalia Kiës, where sounds become a reflective dimension of immersing oneself in a web of digital distraction; oscillating between sound, between platforms, and between algorithms. It offers a chance to see, hear and enjoy the absurdity of the information we consume, and the disorienting, changing structure of language and communication.