According to the coastline paradox, the more accurately you measure something, the larger it gets. Computers can’t generate their own random numbers, for this they need something outside of themselves. No matter how much data we have, it only ever makes sense to predict the weather two weeks in advance. The human brain and weather prediction algorithms both use random noise to model the unpredictability of turbulent and complex systems – the world is noisy, some call this chaos! Maybe it's called living life, living with infinite resolution and possibility.
Confusion Matrix is an exhibition composed of a computer controlled by the condensation of water inside an acrylic cube, and an assemblage of components from windchimes, precision automated manufacturing, mood rings, antennas, and the cooling systems of personal gaming computers. It is about the ways in which we process the world through representations and measurements, and the limits of where these technologies break down.
Oliver Hull is a Naarm-based West Australian artist working across digital media, video, installation and drawing. Hull is interested in the poetic and political properties of fiction and images and their relationship to time, history, technology, and nature. He has exhibited widely and frequently, most notably with Kunstintitut Melly, FAC, Success, and at ARI spaces internationally and nationally.
