Performance evening
During LCB Depot's Last Friday street food and culture event we had a closing party performance night.
Photography by Grace Elkin.
This project was supported by:
New Generations
In January 2024 we hosted another artist bootcamp residency alongside LCB Depot's Digital Art Month. This time the theme was "generative art", a unique practice where artists use systems, algorithms, and rules to create diverse, thought-provoking works. This exploration often includes elements such as chance, randomness, or mathematical concepts.
Mentor on the residency, Dr Sean Clark, has written up an excellent summary of all activities here.
The Artist Residents
Khush Kali
A Leicester-born and bred artist, Khush has been particularly excited and fascinated to learn about the city’s key role in the history of computer art, which she was unaware of before this project.
Drawing on her South Asian heritage, Khush has responded to the underrepresentation of women and artists of colour in the archive by exploring traditional Indian patterns and decorative techniques used for textiles - such as bandhani, kolam, and rangoli - through the lens of parameter- and rule-based generative art.
alan jetzt
The work created during the residency was a representation of the poem "i carry your heart with me" by E.E. Cummings. This piece saw jetzt applying a generative process to the poem, using analogue computer equipment and algorithms to recombine the words. In this work, jetzt investigated the fusion of traditional literary forms with modern technological methods. This exploration offered a fresh perspective on the intersection of poetry, technology, and visual art, highlighting jetzt's skill in blending various artistic mediums.
Paul Mazzitelli
During his residency, Mazzitelli initially focused on a style and idea influenced by the early works of Dominic Boreham. However, over the course of the residency, he began to explore the work of D.P. Henry, Jack Tait and Marcus West.This is reflected in the artwork he has created for the exhibition, which complements other works in the collections, and gave an opportunity to experiment using modern technology to reimagine early drawing machine and x/y plotter art.
All his work is informed by the idea that art is an artistic collaboration between man and machine.
