MIXED SIGNALS

MA COMMUNICATION DESIGN
FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY

26 APR - 04 MAY
WED - SAT / 10 - 4
grays wharf gallery

An exhibition by Falmouth University MA Communication Design students that explores data’s ability to skew & reshape reality.

“In a universe of products for sale, pre-existing forms, signals already emitted, buildings already constructed, paths marked out by their predecessors, artists no longer consider the artistic field (and here one could add television, cinema, or literature) a museum containing works that must be cited or “surpassed,” as the modernist ideology of originality would have it, but so many storehouses filled with tools that should be used, stockpiles of data to manipulate and present.”

- Nicolas Bourriard, from Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World

While data is objective, the narratives that we weave around data are not. Mixed Signals is an invitation by Falmouth University MA Communication Design to examine and unravel the human condition through the window of information stories. Here, we create a space that allows for multiple polarities, perceiving data at both ends, and everywhere in between.

Nicolas Bourriard defines relational art as a set of artistic practices that examine human relations and their social context, from a theoretical and practical base. The students in this exhibition have become facilitators of dialogues rather than makers. By constructing data nodes around our themes of interest, we form narratives that seek to define a ‘truth,’ whilst recognising that all personal narratives are linked to ‘lived experience,’ our cultural, geographical, and political backgrounds. Relational links between varied themes and their social contexts help us construct an image of the intricacies and subtle narratives of self. Simultaneously, synergies and antagonisms between projects and themes create a charged dialogue, within which we invite you as participant to also claim agency.