Ferguson/Winn: Experimental Works

Jason J Ferguson and Lance Winn have been investigating the promise of big data coupled with the loss and sense of distance that accompanies the digital age since 2019. The duo engages with cyberspace; collaborating with social media, satellite images and topographies, and the code of search engines to evolve forms that reflect on access to information, captured from afar. They then use digital fabrication techniques to extract their investigations of virtual space back into the physical world as epistemological objects exploring how we come to know things now. Ferguson and Winn use the language of mechanical fabrication to reconstruct and make material the power of the virtual as well as revealing the glitches of translation. The two consider these models to highlight the hyper-connectivity found in the digital age as well as the subsequent gaps found where information, and communication, are missing.