

Ama Algorithmus
Axel Garay (B.1989, Australia, Meriam)
Ama Algorithmus, 2025
mixed media: 10 minute digital video, sound, four silk cyanotype photo prints, negative in light box.


Image: Installation view
Exhibition: 1 - 11 May 2025 at RMIT DESIGN ARCHIVE WINDOW, 154 Victoria Street Carlton for YIRRAMBOI.
Presented as part of YIRRAMBOI festival, Ama Algorithmus (Mother Algorithm) explores our relationship to the algorithms that increasingly have control over our thoughts and behaviours. I am interested in the mystical qualities that are often attributed to the algorithm and our subsequent worshipping of it. The mixed media installation includes a video work displayed over four screens and hand printed self portraits on silk using the 19th Century process of Cyanotype. I am so pleased to share that the video has an original music composition by cellist, Thomas Veitch and his collaborator Alistair O'Brien.
Lead Artist: Axel Garay
Music Composition: Thomas Veitch & Alistair O'Brien
Fabric Printing Assistance: Ellie Young at Gold Street Studios
Yirramboi Producer: J-Maine Beazley
Curatorial: Ann Carew & Andrew Tetzlaff
Installation: Tim McLeod

