Yuri Pattison explores notions of cultural spaces, circulation of information and communication technologies through digital media, sculpture and combinations and juxtapositions of the two. Drawing inspiration from the discrepancies of the technological age, Pattison’s work navigates the visual cultures of digital economies, online and offline circuits and labour flexibility in the contemporary workspace. The artist combines data and metadata with archival and historical materials to produce engineered, anti-aesthetic installations with multi-screens, monitors and exhibition hard-ware. The visible cables run along the installations, which exist both off and online, making connections while alluding to the dissociation between the digital and the real and the lack of transparency it produces. From tech start-ups to colonialism to economics, Pattison’s work manoeuvres the blurred lines of our contemporaneity. ...
