Angel Matrices

Beth Von Undall

Opening 16.9
18:00

Artist talk 17.9
13:00

16.9-1.10
Saturdays and Sundays
12:00-14.00

The Angel Matrices is a video recording of a simulation that runs through all the possible permutations of a series of graphical icons as they are ordered across a 3 by 3 matrix.

The graphics are derived from an intelligence test called the Raven’s Progressive Matrices. This test was the first of its kind to circumvent the need for language in order to measure cognitive capacity; through a visual logic system the test determines the takers general abstract ability and fluid intelligence. The work renders this graphical measurement system as a display of flickering lights and slow hypnotic ambient sound, attempting to the draw the viewer into the cool of the computational operations.

One could ask, if the intelligence test represents a sort of psychological and neuronal interface between the chaotic and organic analogue world and the structure of categorizing and quantifying digital systems? - or if such distinctions are even relevant to make anymore.

Beth von Undall is an artist who is currently based in Berlin. Her work takes form as interactive installations, game-like experiences, and aesthetic experiments across computational media. She focuses on questions pertaining to technological acceleration and its ensuing societal disruptions, particularly notions of loss of subjective agency and meaning making. She is educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Media Arts and the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.