KT Duffy

Lives and works in Norman, OK / Chicago, IL

Artist statement

Working in the space between labor and automation, I conjure entities into existence via code-based processes and digital fabrication. These entities fuse digital devices' aesthetics with organic and semi-organic forms in a wide range of formats. Regardless of form, my goal is to spawn moments of interaction and genesis within a series of speculative microcosms to propose a future modality where no entity is bound to a singular reality, expression, or substance. The visual elements in my work reference a broad spectrum of living and non-living lumpy-squiggly things from real and speculative environments: biomimicry, the simulation of natural systems via artificial intelligence, logic breakdowns between human & machine, and technologies related to the evolution of the human-animal are what drives my practice. My work disrupts the boundaries present in the devices with which I collaborate. I utilize the limitations of automated systems as an opportunity to break out of the normative media ratio, leading to cleverly manufactured facets whose material transforms from constraint to bridge. Drawing from an expansive and obsessively created library of code snippets and cad/cam forms allows the individual entities of my work to evolve and inherit attributes from each other, resulting in carnal and colorful transmedia mashups that protrude outside of easy definition. These mashups serve as a surrogate for anything with a body. A module of moving image is often embedded within...

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