an arrangement of/for random words by jo+kapi

SMU Libraries is pleased to present an arrangement of/for random words, a solo exhibition by jo+kapi. The exhibition concludes their artist residency with SMU Libraries, during which they furthered their research and artistic collaboration with machine intelligences..

In the age of predictive text and machine-generated fluency, language is beginning to feel unstable. Scraped, clustered, tokenized, and recombined at scale, words are no longer chosen so much as they are predicted. Meaning starts to feel hollow, and uncertainty creeps in. an arrangement of/for random words explores this shifting terrain, where language resists being fixed and meaning becomes increasingly difficult to hold onto.

At the heart of the exhibition is Enzyme 2.0, a screen-based installation that digests a manifesto word by word, revealing how semiotic structure can be erased, rewritten, or momentarily glimpsed before they disappear again.

OPENING RECEPTION

SMU de Suantio Gallery

4 April, Fri, 7pm-10pm

The Artists will be present

ARTIST TALK

5 April, Sat, 2pm-3.30pm