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This Hideous Replica
August 23 - November 16
‘This Hideous Replica’ exhibition and public program at RMIT Gallery, First Site, Capital Theatre and more, curated by ADM+S investigator Joel Stern and collaborator Sean Dockray as part of Now or Never festival.
Lifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose ‘hideous replica’ haunts industrial Manchester, this experimental project—an admixture of artworks, performances, screenings, workshops, a ‘replica school’ and other uncanny encounters—adopts monstrous replication as a tactic, condition, and curatorial framework for exploring algorithmic culture, simultaneously alienating, seductive and out-of-control.
Exhibition includes Debris Facility, Heath Franco & Matthew Griffin, Josh Citarella, Liang Luscombe, Mochu, Diego Ramírez, Masato Takasaka, Anna Vasof, Loren Adams, Amy May Stuart and more. Performances and presentations by Jennifer Walshe, McKenzie Wark, Tomomi Adachi, Joel Spring, Chloe Sobek, Catherine Ryan, Sophie Penkethem Young, dogmilk collective, Omniversal Hum, Ceri Hann, and more. Curated by Joel Stern (RMIT) and Sean Dockray (Monash).
This Hideous Replica is produced by RMIT Culture and supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the RMIT Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platforms. This project is a part of the City of Melbourne’s Now or Never festival.
Image: Mochu, GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE, 2022, digital video (still), Image courtesy of the artist.
Registration for various exhibits in “This Hideous Replica” are now open:
- Mochu: Great Chain of Stains or Incompatible Rationalities on the Web reading group
1:00pm – 4:00pm, 28 Aug 2024, First Site Gallery
An unscripted conversation, watching-and-reading group with artist and writer Mochu exploring the possibilities and impossibilities of experimental writing after the internet. - Jennifer Walshe: 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art and Music workshop
11:00am – 1:00pm, 4 Sep 2024, First Site Gallery
“AI is not a singular phenomenon. We talk about it as if it’s a monolithic identity, but it’s many, many different things – the fantasy partner chatbot whispering sweet virtual nothings in our ears, the algorithm scanning our faces at passport control, the playlists we’re served when we can’t be bothered to pick an album. The technology is similar in each case, but the networks, the datasets and the outcomes are all different.” - A Hacker Manifesto at 20: A reading group with McKenzie Wark
2:00pm – 4:00pm, 4 Sep 2024, First Site Gallery
Writer, theorist, and raver McKenzie Wark leads a reading and discussion group on her influential text, A Hacker Manifesto, 20 years after its publication by Harvard University Press in 2004. - This Hideous Replica: McKenzie Wark and Jennifer Walshe at The Capitol
6:00pm – 8:00pm, 5 Sep 2024, the Capitol
McKenzie Wark: From Automatic to Automated Writing
A public lecture by writer and theorist McKenzie Wark rethinking historical avant-garde debates on the ‘conceit of the author’ through the prism of AI and generative text.
This Hideous Replica is produced by RMIT Culture with support from the ADM+S Centre, RMIT Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platforms.
The Now or Never Festival celebrates creativity, inquiring minds, and exploration, with a focus on art, ideas, sound and technology.
The theme for the 2024 event is Look through the Image’, inviting audience members to interrogate what’s in front of them, explore deeper meanings, contemplate layers of symbolism and question reality from AI-generated narratives and visual distortion works to cinematic and augmented reality experiences.
