SYNTAXERROR
with Daturascore, loackme, Spøgelsesmaskinen, Mark Webster
from 3 to 19 April 2025
Reception on Saturday 5 April, from 5pm to 9pm
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The exhibition showcases the works of artists who question the boundaries of language. By deconstructing images, disrupting the linearity of text, or subverting algorithms, they transform rigid frameworks into spaces for experimentation. Through noise aesthetics, dithering, and controlled alteration of signs, they turn the digital fabric into a shifting material.
They establish visual systems and reveal their hidden structures. From the pixelated screens of Spøgelsesmaskinen, the generative systems of Mark Webster, and loackme’s algorithmic explorations of dithering to the animated structures of Daturascore, on the border between geometric abstraction and organicity. Their approaches question the relationship between organization and breaking points, where the system begins to fracture, producing unexpected compositions.
Spøgelsesmaskinen presents the Babel series, where the image is subjected to a rigorous organization that favors small pixelated 64x64 LED displays, created by the artist. This work highlights an aesthetic deliberately reduced to its digital essence, following a constructivist approach, echoing the step-by-step construction of the Tower of Babel. By using the graphic characters of the PETSCII character system as building blocks, Babel generates three-dimensional abstract sentences. Through this accumulation and meticulously orchestrated layering, the work plays with the materiality of language, transforming text into a visual structure.
Mark Webster explores the materiality of language by transforming it into a purely visual object. His series Language is Broken, created with Processing, continues the reflection initiated with distraKted, pushing the limits of linguistic structuring. He extracts a fundamental organization that takes on purely graphical aspects. By disrupting typographic forms, he highlights both the visual essence of language and its fragility.
In his series Breaking Point, loackme delves into the expressive potential of dithering. Often used to simulate gradients or compensate for digital
display limitations, dithering becomes the central subject of his work. This series explores the algorithm’s parameters, introducing a tension between systematization and chaos. Breaking Point captures the fragile moment when the strict organization of dithering begins to fracture, generating complex structures and textures.
Daturascore reinvents architecture in the series Architronics, through a refined graphic language. This exercise in style, based on the animation of black-and- white GIFs, relies on simple 3D structures that continuously transform. Rather than being a static form, architecture becomes an entity that adapts, mutates, and negotiates with its own balance, its residents, and its environment. Its accelerated movement evokes both organic growth and the erosion of time, playing with impermanence and digital anomalies.
The exhibition highlights these processes that deconstruct, transform, and reinvent visual language, revealing images in tension between revelation and disappearance.
