HOURS
Thursday 11-5
Friday 11-5
Saturday 11-4

Homing

Aidan McNeillage

03.07.25 — 30.07.25

Opening Wednesday 2 July 5:30 pm

Homing is an exhibition of bic pen blotter drawings by Aidan McNeillage, exploring technological interactions of the artificial, the mechanical and the human, and the results of its hallucinated meaning.

The works deliberately use simple and often ungendered prompts to generate the figures present in the compositions, making visible the inherent biases and assumptions embedded within AI training data, and by extension within society. As a result the works exist as digital collages and are executed using a pen-plotter, functioning as a devirtualisation of digital image making processes.

The images are born from algorithms, reverted to different codifications and remade as physical images by the machine, putting pen to paper.

The works with their titles unlock an imaginary that asks us to participate, reflecting our own biases against an emergent simulated intelligence.

Aidan McNeillage is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Made with support from Creative New Zealand

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