Error & Power Residency commenced this May, with AiR (Artists in Residence) Talks happening every Thursday on our Artcore Gallery FB page. The theme deals with the artistic strategy of creating space for chance, unintentional mistakes and errors to occur and to shape the artist’s work has a long history, and this residency is an opportunity for two artists to explore the relationship between their practice and error – deliberate or accidental. We particularly want to look at technological error – the glitch, the hack, the syntax error – in media arts practice and political activism, as a response to the pervasive power of technology, and its acts of control, regulation, prevention, its power to both liberate and enslave its users, though we are open to proposals in any visual art medium. Our two Artists In Residence are : Neale Willis and Naho Matsuda.

Neale Willis is particularly interested in creating conflict between what enters the machine and what leaves it. He manipulates data to create ambiguities within the certainties of the digital realm, breeding uncertainty from the usually reassuring definite of binary data and letting repetition and replication take form as a rhythm from the space in-between the known and unknown.

Website: www.nealewillis.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nealewillis

Naho Matsuda is a German-Japanese artist based in London. Her work brings together the ordinary and the absurd to explore notions of labour, internet culture, emerging technology and the commons. Her work includes; print, publications, writing, installation and performance. Naho holds a part-time post as a research assistant and tutor in the design department at Goldsmiths University.

Website: www.nahomatsuda.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naho.matsuda