X.
A. Li
X. A. Li is an artist and computer scientist living in Chicago. She creates volatile environments that escalate systems of logic into nonsense. Drawing from an embedded background in "artificial intelligence" research, she constructs installations and performances that misappropriate ordinary economic and technical protocols beyond familiar utility. Materialized through indeterminate conditions subject to risk and chance, her work agitates default notions of the correct and inevitable, seeking the unknown.The frame on the right is what's running on the LED panels at the gallery right now — top row is the outer-state stream, bottom row is the inner-state stream.
Consensus
Consensus is a site-specific installation that poorly documents real events over a period of time. It uses quotidian, open-source A.I. models to generate live descriptions collapsing into a final summary, forming a falsely authoritative record of truth. Reflecting how every fleeting encounter becomes progressively lost through distance and representation, fragmented vantages both in gallery and online at ourconsensus.org offer imperfect glimpses into activities at GLO Modern Gallery over the duration of the exhibition. Once the exhibition concludes, the website compresses into a clinical artifact stripped of adornment proposing a settled narrative. It churns periodically through the same finite data attempting renewed meaning, forever severed from the full realities in question.