Machine Learning
Location: 12 Captain Cook Square (TK Maxx Store), Middlesbrough, TS1 5UB
Dates: Fri 26 Sept - Sat 4 Oct (closed Mon 29 Sept & Tue 30 Sept)
Hours: Daily 10am-5pm (Sun 12-4pm)
Access: Step Free
Artists: Mike Stubbs (made in collaboration with Roland Denning)
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Mike Stubbs is the founder and creative lead of ArtBomb, a residency hub and festival based in Doncaster alongside Church of Ping Pong.
For 12 years, he was Director of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and held a joint appointment as Professor of Art, Media and Curating at Liverpool John Moores University. Prior to that Head of Program ACMI, Australian Centre of Moving Image.
His film and artistic work has been exhibited internationally at major institutions including Tate, Baltic, BBC, Channel 4, and museums worldwide. He has received numerous international awards, including the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale and the Barbara London Prize and a Fleck Fellowship at Banff, Canada.
about the show.
Machine LearningThis audio-visual meditation delves into our intricate connections with machines, mineral exploration, and our dependence on fuel. Developed as part of a research scholarship by Mike Stubbs, at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, centres on the Boulton and Watt Rotative steam engine of 1873. Intricately weaving together video, archive and sound to interrogate the impact of this single machine: its role in accelerating the industrial revolution, shaping the growth of Sydney, and fuelling globalisation.
The rotative steam engine stands as a potent metaphor for the flow of mineral energy, symbolising the surge in power, agency, and capacity brought about by fossil capitalism. Its productivity heralded the era of industry, progress, exploitation, efficiency, time profit, capitalism, the internal combustion engine demonstrating self-regulating engineering principles which perhaps as a progenitor of machine learning.
Made in collaboration with Roland Denning
