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# Rosemary Lee

artist and media researcher

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- [ARTECIENCIA](https://rosemary-lee.com/arteciencia/) - Artificial intelligence is already here. It hasn't asked for permission, and it's not going anywhere. It promises miracles, generates confusion, amplifies inequalities, and turns concepts like creativity, authorship, and cultural work on their head. Does it have the potential to be a tool for liberation, or will it be just another control mechanism disguised as
- [Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care](https://rosemary-lee.com/otherworldly-encounters-wild-anecdotes-on-interspecies-care/) - In collaboration with Risk Hazekamp, this presentation emerges from practice-based art & design research, in which ‘otherworldly’ expressions of agency by our More-Than-Human co-researchers have been witnessed. Drawing on these experiences, we reflect on the position and situatedness of our human embodied, messy and opaque relationality with the More-Than-Human. Following María Puig de la Bellacasa,
- [Contextualizing Artistic Practice with Artificial Intelligence](https://rosemary-lee.com/contextualizingartisticpracticewithartificalintelligence/) - This project examines how current artistic practices with artificial intelligence (AI) are informed by the intersection of transdisciplinary methods and ideas. It aims to develop theory on the historical context behind these emerging modes of cultural production. Contextualizing Artistic Practice with Artificial Intelligence is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Individual Call to Scientific
- [Algorithm, Image, Art](https://rosemary-lee.com/algorithm-image-art/) - This book looks at how the production of images in terms of algorithmic instructions has shaped images and art, as well as the values used to assess them.
- [Art at the Edge of Nature](https://rosemary-lee.com/art-at-the-edge-of-nature/) - Art at the Edge of Nature IV: Biocreative Responsibilities and Consciousness: Situated Methodologies for Imagining More-than-Human Communities is organized in collaboration with the Complutense University of Madrid in dialogue with the research groups SCIART-UCM and GIPAFCoCo-UCM. The seminar aims to generate a space for debate and reflection on how creative and interdisciplinary practices can contribute to
- [Residency at Católica](https://rosemary-lee.com/residency-at-catolica/) - From January through March 2026, I was an artist in residence at Católica's School of Arts in Porto, where I developed my ongoing artistic production and research within the framework of several projects: “Digital Dark Matter/Matéria Escura Digital”, with the support of DGArtes Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport | DGARTES – Directorate-General for
- [Smart&Green Residency](https://rosemary-lee.com/smartgreen-residency/) - I have been selected as an artist in residence in the SMART&GREEN project: Climate Neutral Cities. The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the NORTE2030 Operational Program, underway at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). The main objective of the three awarded residencies is to
- [Statement on the First Edition of Algorithm, Image, Art](https://rosemary-lee.com/statement-on-the-first-edition-of-algorithm-image-art/) - I wish I could say that the published version of my book Algorithm, Image, Art is a perfect articulation of how I envisioned it. Unfortunately that's not the case, but fortunately the life of books can entail many iterations. In the first edition of Algorithm, Image, Art, numerous errors were introduced during the editorial process
- [Algorithmic Image Production](https://rosemary-lee.com/algorithmic-image-production/) - By Rosemary Lee Chapter 1 of Algorithm, Image, Art Algorithms play an increasingly influential role in the production, circulation, and interpretation of images, a shift that has complex implications for art, the humanities, and visual culture. Machine learning has become pervasive beyond the technical research contexts it emerged from and had previously been largely
- [Approximation](https://rosemary-lee.com/approximation/) - By Rosemary Lee Chapter 2 of Algorithm, Image, Art Though it may be an unlikely place to look for insights into the topic of algorithmic media, an atlas from nearly two thousand years ago is a compelling example that bears comparison with modalities present in digital graphics today. Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie argue for
- [Technosolutionism and Broken Promises: The Rise and Fall of NFT Art at Moneylab #13](https://rosemary-lee.com/technosolutionism-and-broken-promises-the-rise-and-fall-of-nft-art-cryptographics-at-moneylab-13/) - Sales of NFTs drastically slumped after peaking in January 2022, leaving many of the promises made about cryptocurrency’s capacity to democratize the art market unmet. The idea that using NFTs as “smart contracts” could solve the difficulties of monetizing digital artworks appealed to many, and platforms for brokering such sales presented creators with new avenues
- [Presentation at Emergent Digital Media, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München](https://rosemary-lee.com/presentation-at-emergent-digital-media-akademie-der-bildenden-kunste-munchen/) - Tue, Dec 2, 2025, 16.30–18.00 at Emergent Digital Media class, AdBK, New Building, room E.O3.26 In this talk, Rosemary Lee will present the central themes of her research on the integration of machine learning in artistic practice, drawing from her book “Algorithm, Image, Art” (2024) as well as her own explorations in recent projects “A
- [Post-Photographic Images. Generative Imaging Processes](https://rosemary-lee.com/post-photographic-images-generative-imaging-processes/) - The international conference Post-photographic Images. Generative Imaging Processes reflects the evolution of the technical image from the photographic to the postphotographic image, which includes digital photographs and AI-generated images. It will focus on a particular aspect of recent image production: the aspect of the generative. Used as an umbrella term, generative refers to a variety
- [Open Solitude](https://rosemary-lee.com/open-solitude/) - Nov 29, 2025, 14:00 – 22:00 Akademie Schloss Solitude The Akademie Schloss Solitude warmly invites you to this year’s winter edition of Open Solitude on Saturday, November 29, 2025, from 2 to 10 pm. 30 interdisciplinary artists and scientists from more than 20 countries will open their living and working studios, jointly presenting a diverse
- [Integrated Researcher at i2ADS](https://rosemary-lee.com/integrated-researcher-at-i2ads/) - I've become an integrated researcher at i2ADS at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto (FBAUP). In that capacity, I will develop my research project Contextualizing Artistic Practices with Artificial Intelligence (2026-2028), which has received funding for 3 years from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
- [Algorithms, Stones & Digital Dark Matter at Ūmėdė festival](https://rosemary-lee.com/algorithms-stones-digital-dark-matter-at-umede-festival/) - This performative talk presents a perspective on the entanglement of visual culture with the distant past. Drawing connections between recent developments such as emerging artistic practices with artificial intelligence and much older methods for the production of images, she makes a case for understanding media as constantly interfacing between past and present, material and intangible.
- [Guest Lecture at FAMU, Prague](https://rosemary-lee.com/guest-lecture-at-famu-prague/) - Algorithmic Processes in Image Production In this talk, Rosemary Lee will present her investigations into the historical threads that converge in generative image production, centering on her recent book, Algorithm, Image Art (2024), as well as drawing on her artistic practice. Lee argues for approaching the recent hype around machine learning and artificial intelligence by
- [Inteligências Entretecidas](https://rosemary-lee.com/inteligencias-entretecidas/) - Launch of the publications Semente-Mundo – Chão de Urtigas, Desnaturadas and Inteligências Entretecidas + Launch of the LP Chão de Urtigas 11.10.2025 5 p.m. Cassandra Bookshop Event marking the launch of the publications linked to the activities of the 2024/2025 Semente-Mundo Programme of the Earthsea Association, along with the LP Chão de Urtigas. These publications
- [Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship](https://rosemary-lee.com/akademie-schloss-solitude-fellowship/) - I'm delighted to announce that I have been selected for a six-month fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, where I will be developing a new project called Digital Dark Matter. Design: Stegmeyer Fischer Creative Studio Akademie Schloss Solitude is an international and transdisciplinary artists’ residence. Its unique model affords artists and scientists valuable freedom to develop
- [A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation](https://rosemary-lee.com/a-structural-plan-for-imitation/) - Rosemary Lee A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation critical perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, anti-colonial research,
- [xCoAx 2025, Dundee](https://rosemary-lee.com/xcoax-2025-dundee/) - A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation will be presented at the xCoAx 2025 exhibition at Dundee University. Exhibition Opening: 17:30 Wednesday 9 July 2025 Dundee University Students' Association Airlie Place Dundee, Scotland Conference Presentation: 14:00 Thursday 10 July 2025 V&A Dundee Auditorium 1 Riverside Esplanade Dundee, Scotland
- [They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness](https://rosemary-lee.com/they-have-escaped-the-weight-of-darkness/) - Rosemary Lee & Miguel Carvalhais, 2025. Installation: light and audio; 2 PAR projectors, 2 speakers, 4 tripods, amplifier, cables. Variable dimensions. With thanks to Béla Tarr & László Krasznahorkai. The Sun does not move. That's what he does. And now we will have an explanation about immortality. All we ask is that you enter with
- [AI & Conflicts. Volume 02](https://rosemary-lee.com/ai-conflicts-volume-02/) - Contribution in AI & Conflicts. Volume 02 Pasquinelli, Buschek & Thorp, Salvaggio, Steyerl, Dzodan, Klein & D’Ignazio, Lee, Quaranta, Atairu, Herndon & Dryhurst, Simnett, Woodgate, Shabara, Ridler, Wu & Ramos, Blas, Hui Edited by Daniela Cotimbo, Francesco D’Abbraccio and Andrea Facchetti 11×18 cm carta usomano copertina morbida 400 pagine Italiano 9788894740158 2025 Artificial intelligence
- [Parameter Generative Arts Fair](https://rosemary-lee.com/parameter-generative-arts-fair/) - Design: Eva Bevec Parameter Generative Arts Fair at Festival Adela 2025 16-18 May 2025 Kino Šiška & osmo/za, Ljubljana In its third edition, Adela – International Festival of Generative Arts will focus on sustainable computational art as a generative force that could support the formation of alternative models of thought and interaction between the environment,
- [Interconnected Intelligences](https://rosemary-lee.com/interconnected-intelligences/) - Interconnected Intelligences is a research field centred on artistic practice, aiming to reflect on the ways in which Artificial Intelligence has been reshaping the dominant concept of "nature." Within a collective environment and a collaborative dynamic, experimentation will enable the construction of an interwoven, critical, and necessarily complex perspective on the relationship between technology and
- [Rethinking Media Art: on zombie media and perpetual instability at MULTIMODUS'25](https://rosemary-lee.com/rethinking-media-art-on-zombie-media-and-perpetual-instability-at-multimodus25/) - Our paper "Rethinking Media Art: on zombie media and perpetual instability" co-written with Miguel Carvalhais has been accepted for presentation at MULTIMODUS'25 – 2nd International Conference on Sound and Image in Art & Design. The conference will take place on 2–3 April at University of Évora in Portugal. More info on the conference and this year's
- [NatureSoft: Essay in The Glenkeen Variations: ArtNature/NatureArt, Book Publication](https://rosemary-lee.com/naturesoft-essay-in-the-glenkeen-variations-book/) - I wrote an essay titled "NatureSoft" on Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler's collaborative explorations with bioplastics while they were artists in residence at Glenkeen Garden in West Cork, Ireland. The text is included in the book The Glenkeen Variations: ArtNature/NatureArt, which collects and reflects on the artistic production that has come out of the Crespo
- [Rethinking Media Art in a Time of Pervasive Computation](https://rosemary-lee.com/rethinking-media-art-in-a-time-of-pervasive-computation/) - In our article “Rethinking Media Art in a Time of Pervasive Computation” Miguel Carvalhais and I reconsider what may be regarded as defining aspects of media art, given the shifting technological conditions since its early days as a field. It's published by Vista Journal of Visual Culture in an open access form available in both
- [Rupture/Remedy](https://rosemary-lee.com/rupture-remedy/) - presented at Chaos Communication Congress 38 “Rupture/Remedy” addresses the viewer with a poetic apology for the chaotic unfairness of the world. Exploring the healing power of giving ourselves the time, space, and license to appreciate how difficult it can be to face the reality we exist within, the work seeks to bear witness to a
- [Flusser & Forgetting in Dead & Alive: Reflections on Media / Art](https://rosemary-lee.com/flusser-forgetting-in-dead-alive-reflections-on-media-art/) - Dead & Alive is a book about dead media art and technology edited by Olle Essvik and Lars Kristensen. The book brings together works from The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age (2022) with new essays on the effects of obsolescence in accessing archival works of art. I have two contributions
- [Unfolding Technical Objects](https://rosemary-lee.com/unfolding-technical-objects/) - Unfolding Technical Objects is an exhibition dedicated to the dialogue between a set of technical objects and historical media collected in the Faculty of Fine Arts spaces and artworks by contemporary artists who explore the media’s material, situated, and experimental nature. In addition to the exhibition at the Faculty of Fine Arts Museum, the program
- [the image is a machine](https://rosemary-lee.com/the-image-is-a-machine/) - the image is a machine Rosemary Lee 2019 A manifesto of the algorithmic image, artwork produced in the context of machine feeling, transmediale, 2019.
- [Molten Media: Supernatural](https://rosemary-lee.com/molten-media-supernatural/) - This installation is the most recent elaboration of the Molten Media series (2013–2018; 2024), my long-term examination of electronic waste. The work presents a collection of material remnants of the recent and distant past. In showcasing mineral, organic, and electronic materials together, the project explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between “natural” and “artificial”. Incorporating a
- [Interview on Who Arted Podcast](https://rosemary-lee.com/interview-on-who-arted-podcast/) - I sat down with my old friend Kyle Wood to record an episode of his podcast, Who Arted? We discussed recent developments in the widespread use of AI and what it can mean for art in a way that's accessible for all ages, from educators to young artists. Is an AI generated image really art?
- [Art Ed Radio: Sci-Fi Artists](https://rosemary-lee.com/art-ed-radio-sci-fi-artists/) - My work is discussed in this episode of Art Ed Radio: Ten Sci-Fi Artists to Share with Your Students. Art Ed Radio Episode #439: Sci-Fi Artists Kyle Wood and host Tim Bogatz talk about their favorite sci-fi artists to share with their students. Listen as they discuss the connections between art and science fiction, as
- [Keynote and Workshop at RIXC Art Science Festival](https://rosemary-lee.com/rixc-art-science-festival/) - This year's RIXC Art Science festival with the title Symbiotic Sense(s) took place from October 23-25, 2024, in Riga, Latvia, exploring art, technology, and collective intelligence from the perspective of sensual perception and extended cognition. The festival, positioned at the intersection of symbiotic art aesthetics and visionary scientific paradigms, aims to embrace symbiotic thinking, based on a close collaboration between nature
- [Book Presentation at gnration](https://rosemary-lee.com/book-presentation-at-gnration/) - Saturday, 12 October 2024 16:30–17:40 gnration Praça Conde de Agrolongo 123 4700-312 Braga, Portugal Algorithms play an increasingly influential role in the production, circulation, and interpretation of images, a shift that has complex implications for art, the humanities, and visual culture. In this talk, Rosemary Lee will present her book Algorithm, Image, Art, which examines
- [Mapping the Wasp](https://rosemary-lee.com/mapping-the-wasp/) - "Rosemary envisions a display system for interactions between plants, animals, minerals, people and machines, based on a survey of the different species occurring around Fazenda Santa Teresa, and highlighting the unique qualities of the local biome. Her aim is to raise awareness that interconnections between different living beings and their environment cannot be reduced to
- [Cloud Harvest](https://rosemary-lee.com/cloud-harvest/) - photo: Kim Jasper, 2016. Cloud Harvest is an installation consisting of a smartphone which has been deconstructed, its materials sorted based on their chemical composition and housed within a cloud chamber. Inside, an ultrasonic fog machine atomises water to create a cloud inside a mirrored cube. This work reflects on the materiality of cloud computing,
- [The Algorithmic State: Adversarial Aesthetics](https://rosemary-lee.com/the-algorithmic-state-adversarial-aesthetics/) - February 29, 12pm EST Guest Speakers: Rosemary Lee, Nadja Verena Marcin, and Joanna Zylinska Join us for this thought-provoking panel discussion that highlights the intersections of technology and aesthetics within the framework of what is known as Adversarial Aesthetics. Joanna Zylinska, an artist and media philosopher acclaimed for her provocative text, AI Art: Machine Visions
- [Synthetic Images: Data-based Aesthetics](https://rosemary-lee.com/synthetic-images-data-based-aesthetics/) - This essay examines how data-based practices contribute to new perspectives on the empirical value of images. Recent methods employing machine learning enable visualisations to be produced based on the large-scale analysis of data but that are detached from direct sensorial observation, subverting the forms of visual objectivity traditionally associated with technical and scientific methods of
- [MYTH, MAGIC, MACHINES](https://rosemary-lee.com/myth-magic-machines/) - MYTH, MAGIC, MACHINES is a visual essay about the production and consumption of visual media engaging with artificial intelligence. Combining still- and moving images with textual fragments, this work addresses key themes including foundational assumptions and mythologies from the history of AI that have become embedded in the technology itself, as well as its surrounding
- [Resilience as a Critical Approach to Technology in Rewilding Culture](https://rosemary-lee.com/resilience-as-a-critical-approach-to-technology-in-rewilding-culture/) - My essay Resilience as a Critical Approach to Technology was published as a chapter in the book Rewilding Culture. Rewilding Culture, ed. Erich Berger et al. (Ljubljana: Zavod Projekt Atol, 2021), 72–82. ISBN: 978-961-92449-7-5 This essay considers how approaching the theme of resilience from a critical perspective on technology offers insight into technology’s
- [Analysis Paralysis and a Bag of Bad Ideas](https://rosemary-lee.com/analysis-paralysis-and-a-bag-of-bad-ideas/) - In the face of multiple global-scale crises, what direction should we take as artists and thinkers? What can we do when all we have is a bag of bad ideas? What importance does art have when the earth is burning? There is a growing sense of paralysis: all available options seem inadequate, but we’re not
- [The Tangential Realism of @PepitoTheCat](https://rosemary-lee.com/the-tangential-realism-of-pepitothecat/) - images: @PépitoTheCat, Clément Storck, 2022 The automated Twitter account @PépitoTheCat documents the comings and goings of a housecat. It tweets “Pépito is out” each time the cat exits his cat door, with a photograph and timestamp documenting this act. Upon Pépito’s return, a follow-up tweet announces “Pépito is back home”, accompanied by a photograph
- [Cryptographics at Moneylab #13 Exhibition Krypto: Decrypting the Artist](https://rosemary-lee.com/cryptographics-at-moneylab-13-krypto-decrypting-the-artist/) - Presented in the context of the Moneylab #13 exhibition Krypto: Decrypting the Artist, Cryptographics considers the recent phenomenon of cryptoart, which involves associating digital artefacts with blockchain, often tokenising artworks with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Ostensibly intended to give digital creators more control over their work, this practice has recently been the subject of heated debate,
- [Diplopia Experiments](https://rosemary-lee.com/diplopia-experiments/) - This project explores parallels between human and machine visual interpretation. The title of the work Diplopia Experiments references the medical term for double vision, where viewers perceive two images of the same thing at once. Each kit includes a set of stereogram cards with instructions and materials to build a DIY stereoscopic viewer. The format
- [Deconstructing Representation](https://rosemary-lee.com/deconstructing-representation/) - Installation based on the outcome of experimenting with training a generative adversarial network on a dataset composed of every image I had saved in Instagram up to that point. The goal of the project was to see what a machine learning algorithm would produce from a disorderly collection of images I find interesting, hoping for the
- [Behind the Algorithmic Image @ IDSA x Ars Electronica FOUNDING LAB](https://rosemary-lee.com/behind-the-algorithmic-image-idsa-x-ars-electronica-founding-lab/) - The recent tendency towards algorithmic forms of image-making builds upon longstanding tendencies in visual culture that shape the way we think about images and the processes behind them. This presentation looks at the adoption of machine learning and the wider themes surrounding artificial intelligence in contemporary artistic practice and contextualises current technical developments in relation
- [process==structure in The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age](https://rosemary-lee.com/processequalsequalsstructure/) - process==structure Produced for the book The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age. Edited by Olle Essvik. Göteborg: Rojal Förlag, 2022 This work explores how algorithms structure the visual. It uses a simple program to produce potentially endless amounts of new compositions, drawing from an archive of all images analysed during my PhD
- [Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture](https://rosemary-lee.com/dark-eden-transdisciplinary-imaging-at-the-intersections-of-art-science-and-culture/) - Machine Learning and the Mediating Tendencies of the Image published in the book Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture. Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture, ed. Edward Colless et al. (Melbourne: Art + Australia, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2022).
- [Leonardo LABS Top Rated Thesis Abstracts](https://rosemary-lee.com/leonardo-labs-top-rated-thesis-abstracts/) - My abstract was selected among the Top-Rated Thesis Abstracts of 2021 by Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) and published in Leonardo journal. LABS is a database of thesis abstracts (PhD, Master’s and MFA) on topics at the intersections of art, science and technology. This English-language database was established at Pomona College (Claremont, CA). In addition to
- [Three Questions on Media Criticality](https://rosemary-lee.com/three-questions-on-media-criticality/) - A What are promising modes of critique today? B What is critical about media technologies? C What comes after critique? I was invited to contribute answers to Three Questions on Media Criticality, a field notebook for "A Critical Media Salon" held at transmediale 2015 CAPTURE ALL. A discussion about the past, present and future of
- [interview with Patrizia Costantin in machines will watch us die exhibition catalogue](https://rosemary-lee.com/interview-in-machines-will-watch-us-die/) - Patrizia Costantin In Conversation with... Rosemary Lee and Martin Howse machines will watch us die exhibition catalogue (Manchester: The Holden Gallery, 2018).
- [Contribution in Kinetismus 100 Years of Electricity in Art](https://rosemary-lee.com/contribution-in-kinetismus-100-years-of-electricity-in-art/) - I wrote an entry on Anna Ridler's work Mosaic Virus for the book Kinetismus 100 Years of Electricity in Art, edited by Christelle Havranek, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, and Peter Weibel. Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, edited by Peter Weibel and Christelle Havranek (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022). ISBN: 978-3-7757-5197-1
- [Molten Media the book](https://rosemary-lee.com/molten-media-the-book/) - Investigating the interrelated nature of the materiality and temporality of media apparatuses, Molten Media takes a deep-time view of a rapid-cycling throwaway culture: paradoxically obsessed with the accumulation and storage of codes, though the devices used to store and access them are considered disposable. In spite of the impression that our gadgets expire almost as
- [Memory Palace](https://rosemary-lee.com/memory-palace/) - Net art project produced in cooperation with Internet Moon Gallery. Based on the mnemonic technique of the same name, Memory Palace explores interrelations between memory and spatial dimensions. Working with the materiality of conceptual associations and digital environments, this piece presents a nonlinear narration through a system of interrelated digital/conceptual objects. Due to the idiosyncratic nature
- [Symbiotic Sound](https://rosemary-lee.com/symbiotic-sound/) - Installation using sound to explore symbiotic relationships between plants, other species and their environment. Speakers surgically implanted in carnivorous plants’ pitcher-shaped leaves play a 12-channel sound composition, buzzing with the sounds of insects, bats and dripping water. This work is based on a real species of plant that has adapted to echo the call of
- [Molten Media](https://rosemary-lee.com/molten-media/) - Investigating the interrelated nature of the materiality and temporality of media apparatuses, Molten Media takes a deep-time view of a rapid-cycling throwaway culture: paradoxically obsessed with the accumulation and storage of codes, though the devices used to store and access them are considered disposable. In spite of the impression that our gadgets expire almost as
- [Entering into Relation with an Object](https://rosemary-lee.com/entering-into-relation-with-an-object/) - Reading group with Miriam Wistreich, 2016–2017 Entering Into Relation With an Object was an ongoing exploration that evolved from a shared curiosity toward objects: their proliferation, status and possible lives. Through a series of performative reading events and exhibitions centred on the perceptual worlds of non-human beings, objects and machines, the project aims to find
- [Identifying Abstract Art](https://rosemary-lee.com/identifying-abstract-art/) - Experiment with representation and abstraction in image classification systems. The experiment focused on the fact that non-representational images can be a great challenge for algorithms to classify. In order to test this idea, I compiled a data set of digital images of abstract paintings. This was done by collecting the first 100 results for ‘abstract’
- [Absorption, Saturation, Toxicity, Elimination](https://rosemary-lee.com/absorption-saturation-toxicity-elimination/) - An installation examining modes of extraction and interpretation that are exerted on landscapes, Absorption, Saturation, Toxicity, Elimination explores the technological metabolism of the earth: extracting data, chemicals, and organic compounds of value. The work looks at these themes through interrelationships between three different sites. A volcano proposed as a source of energy for bitcoin mining, lithium processing facilities,
- [Art Involving Computation vs. Computational Art](https://rosemary-lee.com/art-involving-computation-vs-computational-art/) - published in the book Espaço/Programa Computational Art, Essays/Works, 2022. download a pdf: "Art Involving Computation vs. Computational Art"
- [Becoming Geological the book](https://rosemary-lee.com/becoming-geological-the-book/) - A visual essay on modes of extraction and interpretation that are exerted on landscapes Absorption, Saturation, Toxicity, Elimination explores the technological metabolism of the earth: extracting data, chemicals, and organic compounds of value. The work looks at these themes through interrelationships between three different sites. A volcano proposed as a source of energy for bitcoin mining, lithium processing
- [Experimentation with Artbreeder](https://rosemary-lee.com/experimentation-with-ganbreeder/) - This experiment explores how human decisions may influence outcomes when using such a system to produce images. Using the image generation system Artbreeder (Simon 2018), one may only see one set of results at a time, meaning that one only has a partial idea of what might be produced, but this lacks breadth showing all
- [image machine / machine image](https://rosemary-lee.com/image-machine-machine-image/) - The series image machine / machine image explores the relationship between image and code. Each “image” in the series consists of a grid containing the hand-drawn pixel values of a digital image, an analogue set of algorithmic instructions for the execution of the work. The series uses simple generative strategies to deconstruct the digital image.
- [Artificial Interpretation](https://rosemary-lee.com/artificial-interpretation/) - Essay accompanying Ava Zevop's Exhibition In the Beginning, There Was Static ... In the End, There Was the Webbed Wide World at OSMO/ZA, Ljubljana, Slovenia, hosted by Ljudmila. Read the essay "Artificial Interpretation" here. Artificial Interpretation 2022 In the Beginning, There Was Static ... In the End, There Was the Webbed Wide World by Ava Zevop
- [Machine Learning and Notions of the Image](https://rosemary-lee.com/machine-learning-and-notions-of-the-image/) - This PhD thesis addresses how current notions of image production remain tied to historical ideas which often prove inadequate for the description of visual artefacts of machine learning (ML). ML refers to the notion of simulating the process of information acquisition computationally, and when applied to the generation of images, it enables visual content to
- [Cryptographics](https://rosemary-lee.com/cryptographics/) - Cryptographics considers the recent phenomenon of cryptoart, which involves associating digital artefacts with blockchain, often tokenising artworks with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Ostensibly intended to give digital creators more control over their work, this practice has recently been the subject of heated debate, as well as setting off a feeding frenzy by artists and speculative investors.
- [Operative Image: Automation and Autonomy](https://rosemary-lee.com/operative-image-automation-and-autonomy/) - published in: APRJA Vol. 8 No. 1 (2019): Machine Feeling Download the essay here. Full issue here. Machine Feeling Digital culture has become instrumental for capturing and managing what Raymond Williams would once have called “structures of feeling”. The journal issue A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Machine Feeling alludes to this, and points to a material
- [Mise en Abyme: the page as formal construct](https://rosemary-lee.com/mise-en-abyme-the-page-on-the-page/) - 2012 In this material experiment, I repeatedly scanned a piece of printing paper and printed the image of the paper onto itself. The resulting mise en abyme emphasises the format of the page.
- [Natural Deviations](https://rosemary-lee.com/natural-deviations/) - 2008 In my first solo exhibition, Natural Deviations, I reinterpreted the experience of a trip to Iceland through a spatial installation. Stratified landmasses made of cut fabric and plants wrapped in technicolor thread represent an otherworldly landscape pieced together from memories like snapshots of a dream. Memory seems to have more significance to those who
- [The Cinematic Imaginary](https://rosemary-lee.com/the-cinematic-imaginary/) - 2012 The Cinematic Imaginary employs a stroboscopic effect to make manifest picnoleptic lapses of consciousness. Projecting moving and still frames onto a rotating mirror causes a recurring eclipse, while sending the reflected image rotating around the walls of the exhibition space. Working between the fragmentary time of the cinematic and the continuous time of the rotating
- [On Sensitivity, Plants & Noise](https://rosemary-lee.com/on-sensitivity-plants-noise/) - 2012 On Sensitivity, Plants and Noise emerged as an exploration in response to Arthur Schopenhauer's treatise "On Noise", in which he expounds upon the effects of noise on living beings. Striking a conversation with three other philosophers on this theme, each was asked to contribute an aesthetic production involving an interpretation of noise to engage with
- [The Typesetter's Ruminations](https://rosemary-lee.com/the-typesetters-ruminations/) - 2015 Deconstructing technology down to its components, The Typesetter's Ruminations draws connections between electronics, their mineral origins, and alphanumeric code. In text-based images composed of chemical formulas for common elements used in electronic devices, she explores the relationship of coding to the materiality of media. Using the substrate as a medium of expression, the works in
- [Artifacts](https://rosemary-lee.com/artifacts/) - 2015–2016 Artifacts is a wifi-based artwork, a collection of specimens which blur the lines between geological sample and digital anomaly. Dead pixels, moiré patterns, distortion, and other digital aberrations reveal incongruencies between data and the material substrate of digital representation. Exploring the gap between digital objects and their display via apparatus renders visible anomalies and
- [Mining the Arbitrary](https://rosemary-lee.com/mining-the-arbitrary/) - 2014–2016 Reflecting on the adverse impact of mining materials as well as data, Mining the Arbitrary aims at extracting senseless numerical data from materials. In light of the Anthropocene, even substances such as water, snow, stone, and earth bear evidence of the effects of humanity. Collecting, inventorying, and analysing samples of various substances sourced in the
- [Stepping into the Impossible](https://rosemary-lee.com/270-2/) - 2013 Conceiving of thought as aesthetic formation, think a thought connecting all the other thoughts by the navel. Think impossible thoughts which actualize virtualities or forms which rip holes in the fabric of things. Think tiny thoughts which accommodate universes and monumental ones contained within droplets of water. Take physical manifestations to their bitter end,

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