This six hour performance was curated by Srinivas Mangipudi for his exhibtion titled this.generation. Srinivas was showing works that we generated by an instruction, a program or an algorithm. Here’s an excerpt from his curatorial note:

“Generative art is usually considered to be works rendered by programming and coding a machine, where an algorithm can give rise to infinite unique experiences of itself, even tailored to specific individuals. This innate technological framing is challenging collectively to encompass and comprehend the ramifications of a techno-sociological future, one that is progressively becoming more real. As our lives are subsumed and overrun with technology that is getting increasingly "smarter" everyday, it is a good moment to pause and reflect on how artists have invariably used the enabled creative processes in their practice.”

I was invited to activate and interpret a Sol Lewitt Drawing Instruction #797 to be exact and this is what it read like:

“A black not straight line is drawn at approximately the center of the wall horizontally from side to side. Alternate red, yellow and blue lines are drawn above and below the black line to the top and bottom of the wall.”

To know more about the exhibition please visit https://www.sgcfa.org/events_details.php?id=123