Through research into Cubitt’s extensive archive of the organisation’s 30-year history, an algorithm was developed from past data sets in collaboration with Black Shuck, a UK based co-operative producing digital projects. Using input materials such as exhibition press releases and artist bios, the algorithm was capable of generating artist names, birth dates, and educational backgrounds alongside exhibition titles and press statements leading up to the year 3000. In the culmination of this research, Gery Georgieva’s UWU Channel Radiance employed the algorithm’s speculative look at Cubitt’s archive in determining her own uncertain future.
Requiring human analysis and deconstruction, like all data sets, Georgieva took on a playful and cynical expression of the archive. Working within themes of pop culture, folklore, and internet DIY aesthetics, Georgieva critically engaged with popular and historical representations of the feminine.
