Isaac Sullivan

  • Figure 1 - Bibliography (146 x 110 cm) - a composite depicting the faces of people whose words are sampled within the first eight addresses
  • Every icon / is now calculating the second line of the grid (43 x 60 cm) - after John Simon Jr.
  • A Lightbox Depicts A (study for a sound sculpture)
  • Implying A (study for a sound sculpture). The project is divided into eight multimedia installments; each is termed a figure, and incorporates eight addresses. Its audio mixes analog synth with geographically nonspecific field recordings.
  • Epigraph
  • Jacob (112 x 152 cm) Jacob is the name given by Linguatec Apps to its English (U.S.) male voice. This image merges the likeness assigned to that voice with a visualization of the human body produced via Google's artificial neural network.
  • Jacob (detail)
  • Prologue

The 64 Addresses are a series of writings - conveyed via text-to-voice software - imagining the speaker as an artificial intelligence unfolding into being. The project's material production is meant to constitute a map for tracing its provenance. 

 

 

Isaac Sullivan

Isaac Sullivan (born 1980, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist engaging with the aesthetics of the generic through a project-based, multimedia practice. He received an MFA in Art from the University of Iowa, an MFA in English from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a BA in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. The artist has been included in exhibitions at the Figge Museum, Davenport, IA; Open Lot, Nashville, TN; and Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI, among others. His work has been featured in 1913: A Journal of Forms, InDigest, Slope, and Quarterly West

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