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Q1 Close (2025)
4–14 Dec
Platform by Canberra Contemporary, ACT

The close of a quarter is an opportunity to review, reflect and re-align.

Twenty-five years into a century that opened with the utopian promise of the internet as a decentralised, democratic force, technology companies have harvested the history of art and culture as data to fuel an accelerating AI arms race. Q1 Close, the final exhibition of Platform’s 2025 program, examines the status of art within shifting economies of value by responding to a question posed by a 2025 star-studded advertisement for Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses: Who eats art?

Exhibition text Hey Meta, Who Eats Art? by Thao Phan.

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Litia Roko, Q1 Close, 2025, installation views.

500mL/point (2024)

500mL/point is a cost-benefit analysis of outsourcing your art practice to artificial intelligence.  The work is assembled from materials produced on various AI platforms alongside text appropriated from AI advertisements, and its title refers to the vast quantities of water required to build, use and maintain AI systems. Responding to data-driven approaches to art and culture that overwhelmingly frame AI as an innocuous tool for creative practice, 500mL/point playfully explores its entanglement in emergent crises and considers notions of cultural authority and liveness in network culture.

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Litia Roko, 500ml/point, 2024, single-channel HD video (colour, sound), 00:11:08

SUPER FANTASTIC (2024)
SUPER FANTASTIC was a lecture-performance delivered at Futile Futures, Civic Art Bureau on October 15 2024, a satellite event to the AI4LAM conference 'Fantastic Futures’ hosted by the National Film and Sound Archive. Responding to the themes of the conference, this work asked: what kind of fantastic future does the technology industry really offer for art, aesthetics, and cultural institutions?


SUPER FANTASTIC, 2024, lecture-performance, Keynote, 00:16:52.

A calm and soothing screensaver (2024)
A spot of reassurance while you wait. For maximum relief, view on desktop or rotate your phone to landscape orientation.

Technologies of crap (2024)
Technologies of crap was a lecture-performance about looking for something in an elusive young tech bro, the trials and tribulations of a practice-based breakup, and the propaganda of algorithmic images dressed up in photographic clothes.


Technologies of crap, 2024, lecture-performance, Keynote with sound, 00:28:04.


  

 

Action and Agony (2024)
Action and Agony is a video about mediation. The work departs from an attempt at reading of Vilém Flusser’s seminal text Towards A Philosophy of Photography, from which it also borrows its name.


Action and Agony, 2024, single-channel HD video (colour, sound), 00:06:41.