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About 0rphan Drift

The collaborative artist as avatar 0rphan Drift (0D) has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision since its inception in 1994. It was co-founded by Maggie Roberts, Ranu Mukherjee, Suzi Karakashian and Erle Stenberg in London. It has taken diverse forms through the course of its career, sometimes changing personnel and artistic strategies in accordance with the changing exigencies of the time. In recent years 0D has been considering Artificial Intelligence through the somatic tendencies of the octopus - as a distributed, many-minded consciousness. The multiple channel video installation If AI Were Cephalopod at Telematic Gallery San Francisco (2019), and the ACE funded IMT Gallery Becoming Octopus Meditations, both suggest possibilities in expanding and inhabiting other systems of perception and proprioception, navigating what it means to communicate with an alien intelligence and how to address human exceptionalism’s limited understanding of ourselves in relation to other kinds of life, whether as the distributed intelligence of the octopus or the synthetic architecture of an Ai. 0rphan Drift has been partnered by the Serpentine Gallery’s Creative Ai Lab for several years, in a larger collaboration with Ai consultancy Etic Lab, ISCRI, and now the current 0rphan Drift 9 Brains project. 0rphan Drift installations, performances and speculative fictions have been exhibited nationally and internationally in gallery and museum spaces for over three decades. Recent exhibitions include Still I Rise: Gender, Feminisms and Resistance at Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini, UK; Matter Fictions at the Berardo Museum Lisbon; Speculative Frictions at PDX Contemporary Portland Or; Eat Code and Die at Lomex Gallery NY and in the book Fictioning, The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy, by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan, Edinburgh University Press, 2019. And In Conversation on Serpentine Twitch TV A Cephalopod><Machine Encounter (Frieze week 2021). For further information, visit www.orphandriftarchive.com.

The collaborative artist as avatar 0rphan Drift (0D) has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision since its inception in 1994. It was co-founded by Maggie Roberts, Ranu Mukherjee, Suzi Karakashian and Erle Stenberg in London. It has taken diverse forms through the course of its career, sometimes changing personnel and artistic strategies in accordance with the changing exigencies of the time.

In recent years 0D has been considering Artificial Intelligence through the somatic tendencies of the octopus – as a distributed, many-minded consciousness. The multiple channel video installation If AI Were Cephalopod at Telematic Gallery San Francisco (2019), and the ACE funded IMT Gallery Becoming Octopus Meditations, both suggest possibilities in expanding and inhabiting other systems of perception and proprioception, navigating what it means to communicate with an alien intelligence and how to address human exceptionalism’s limited understanding of ourselves in relation to other kinds of life, whether as the distributed intelligence of the octopus or the synthetic architecture of an Ai. 0rphan Drift has been partnered by the Serpentine Gallery’s Creative Ai Lab for several years, in a larger collaboration with Ai consultancy Etic Lab, ISCRI, and now the current 0rphan Drift 9 Brains project.

0rphan Drift installations, performances and speculative fictions have been exhibited nationally and internationally in gallery and museum spaces for over three decades. Recent exhibitions include Still I Rise: Gender, Feminisms and Resistance at Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini, UK; Matter Fictions at the Berardo Museum Lisbon; Speculative Frictions at PDX Contemporary Portland Or; Eat Code and Die at Lomex Gallery NY and in the book Fictioning, The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy, by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan, Edinburgh University Press, 2019. And In Conversation on Serpentine Twitch TV A Cephalopod><Machine Encounter (Frieze week 2021).  For further information, visit www.orphandriftarchive.com.

Articles with 0rphan Drift

Destabilizing assumptions and expanding imagination

The collaborative artist as avatar 0rphan Drift (0D) has explored the boundaries of machine and human vision since its inception in 1994. It was co-founded by Maggie Roberts, Ranu Mukherjee, Suzi Karakashian and Erle Stenberg in London. It has taken diverse forms through the course of its career, sometimes changing personnel and artistic strategies in accordance with the changing exigencies of the time. In recent years 0D has been considering Artificial Intelligence through the somatic tendencies of the octopus – as a distributed, many-minded consciousness.