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13 Million 8 362 Million 10
"Nobody's Madder Than Me About the Website Not Working" 11
"The Rest of the People Would Just Watch Television" - A New Hope 13
Unfollowed in AI Open Water 37
13 Million 8
362 Million 10
"Nobody's Madder Than Me About the Website Not Working" 11
"The Rest of the People Would Just Watch Television" - A New Hope 13
AI Spectrum (1) 16
AI Spectrum (2) 18
Unfollowed in AI Landscape 2
Everything in its Right Place 23
317 Million 24
283 Million 2
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (4) 28
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (5) 30
Generated Rapunzel 31
Missing Generation Part 2 34
Unfollowed in AI Open Water 37
Unfollowed 40
List of Works 48 Acknowledgements 51
13 Million 8
362 Million 10
"Nobody's Madder Than Me About the Website Not Working" 11
"The Rest of the People Would Just Watch Television" - A New Hope 13
AI Spectrum (1) 16
AI Spectrum (2) 18
Unfollowed in AI Landscape 2
Everything in its Right Place 23 317 Million 24
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (4) 28
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (5) 30
Generated Rapunzel 31
Missing Generation Part 2 34
Unfollowed in AI Open Water 37
Unfollowed 40
List of Works 48
Acknowledgements 51
What’s the point of being famous for 15 minutes, when the average human attention span has collapsed to eight seconds?
In this breathless, frenzied century we’re living through, politics has become entertainment, consumer brands, hungry for sales. Art itself is not that Warhol both prophesied and embraced.
faceless curators and custodians, monopolise and monetise, crowning new icons while tearing down others.
What are these algorithms? Are they something that is created for us, or are they something we collectively create and are subsumed into ourselves?
Each portrait in the exhibition is assembled from a curated assortment of mass-produced objects suspended in resin, creating a kaleidoscope of interconnecting patterns, mathematical rotations
social networks that we exist in today. The intricate, three-dimensional collages are inviting us to delve under the hood of popular culture, in an age of excessive information and communication. Looking closely at the work encourages us to think about the multiple layers of content that bombard, and sometimes overwhelm the modern consumer of news, entertainment, and culture during our every waking moment. The stories, products and opinions behind the headlines can become more important than the headlines themselves.
This body of work encapsulates our obsessive relationship with media, celebrity and politics, in an increasingly interconnected, but polarised world.
as individuals in their own right, but as cultural billions of news feeds worldwide.
UK artist Miss Bugs has been creating art from their studio in London since 2007. Originally from a background in photography and graphics, they developed fast, spontaneous working methods, mainly cutting and pasting archival images from
sampling’ classic imagery to create new pieces with their own distinctive mark.
work using a broad scope of disciplines. Recent notable projects include their Do No Harm installation work that sees pharmaceuticals encapsulated in lollies, and junk food wrappers inside medical capsules. Miss Bugs makes thousands of the small hand cast objects which have been displayed in immersive gallery at Saatchi Gallery.
Their current large scale resin collages are time consuming and precise, a long way from the quickly constructed art pieces of the early days. Using techniques from screen printing onto aluminium sheets to resin casting, Miss Bugs’ mashups of iconic portraits, products and brands
unchecked consumerism. Through depicting the human form, Miss Bugs’ interest lies in developing
The work is also embedded in the aesthetic of Pop Art with its sharp graphic edges, brash colours and Hannah Höch and Tom Wesselmann can clearly be seen. The layering and placing of colour and pattern is also intrinsic to the work and is very San Francisco, Paris and London, and their artwork around the world.
In Algorithms 2.0, Miss Bugs delivers a profound exploration of the forces reshaping human identity interact, consume, and even perceive reality. these systems: their capacity to connect and
Miss Bugs deftly explores the dual nature of algorithms: their capacity to optimize and elevate, and their potential to distort and control. By
Central to this discourse are three portraits that yet comparatively muted, digital relevance.
and valued in the algorithmic age. These portraits
Algorithms 2.0 unfolds, it challenges us to confront tools for good—or if they merely mirror our
Miss Bugs offers a visual manifesto that is as urgent as it is evocative—a reminder that the machine.
Lisa Burgess
13 Million
Hand cast, optically clear PU resin prisms on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness) w111 x h151cm
362 Million
Hand cast, optically clear PU resin prisms on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w111 x h151cm
"Nobody's Madder Than Me About the Website Not Working"
Hand painted 3D printed pills and pharmaceutical capsules, cast in resin on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness) w128 x h165cm
"The Rest of the People Would Just Watch Television" - A New Hope and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness) w128 x h159cm
AI Spectrum (1)
Match Box cars, silkscreen, acrylic paint, wood and resin blocks on aluminium Series of 6 (each a unique likeness) w82 x h118cm
AI Spectrum (2)
Match Box cars, silkscreen, acrylic paint, wood and resin blocks on aluminium Series of 6 (each a unique likeness)
w82 x h118cm
Unfollowed in AI Landscape
Acrylic paint, papercuts and optically clear PU resin cast clouds, on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w117 x h148cm
Everything in its Right Place 3500 hand cast pharmaceutical lollipops with positioning bracket and line Edition of 1 Sphere: w220 x h220cm
317 Million
Printed paper cuts and mirrored foil, cast in resin on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w111 x h152cm
283 Million
Printed paper cuts and mirrored foil, cast in resin on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w111 x h152cm
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (4)
Micro Machine cars cast in resin on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w98 x h136cm
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (5)
Micro Machine cars cast in resin on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w98 x h136cm
Generated Rapunzel
Acrylic paint and papercuts cast in resin on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness) w101 x h141cm
Missing Generation Part 2
cast shards on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w126 x h176cm
Unfollowed in AI Open Water
Acrylic paint, papercuts, surgical blades and optically clear PU resin cast clouds on wood and aluminium Series of 3 (each a unique likeness) w151 x h97cm
Unfollowed
Acrylic paint, papercuts and optically clear PU resin cast clouds on wood and aluminium Edition of 40 (blue) + 15 (pink) w61 x h80cm
Erection Interference
Printed paper cast in neon pigmented resin on wood
w98 x h120cm
Algorithms - Drawing 1 / 2 / 3
Pencil And Cut Paper.
Series of 5 (each unique)
w44 x h30cm
Generated Rapunzel (edition print)
Archival print + 6col screen print / UV varnish +embossed gold leaf. Edition of 55
01 ( )
13 Million
Hand cast, optically clear PU resin prisms on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w111 x h151cm
02 ( )
362 Million
Hand cast, optically clear PU resin prisms on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w111 x h151cm
03 ( )
"Nobody's Madder Than Me About the Website Not Working"
Hand painted 3D printed pills and pharmaceutical capsules, cast in resin on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w128 x h165cm
04 ( )
"The Rest of the People Would Just Watch Television" - A New Hope and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w128 x h159cm
05 ( )
AI Spectrum (1)
Match Box cars, silkscreen, acrylic paint, wood and resin blocks on aluminium
Series of 6 (each a unique likeness)
w82 x h118cm
06 ( )
AI Spectrum (2)
Match Box cars, silkscreen, acrylic paint, wood and resin blocks on aluminium
Series of 6 (each a unique likeness)
w82 x h118cm
07 ( )
Unfollowed in AI Landscape
Acrylic paint, papercuts and optically clear PU resin cast clouds, on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w117 x h148cm
08 ( )
Everything in its Right Place
3500 hand cast pharmaceutical lollipops with positioning bracket and line
Edition of 1
Sphere: w220 x h220cm
09 ( )
317 Million
Printed paper cuts and mirrored foil, cast in resin on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w111 x h152cm
10 ( )
283 Million
Printed paper cuts and mirrored foil, cast in resin on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w111 x h152cm
11 ( )
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (4)
Micro Machine cars cast in resin on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w98 x h136cm
12 ( )
Driving Miss Crazy - Algorithms (5)
Micro Machine cars cast in resin on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w98 x h136cm
13 ( )
Generated Rapunzel
Acrylic paint and papercuts cast in resin on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w101 x h141cm
14 ( )
Missing Generation Part 2
PU resin cast shards on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w126 x h176cm
15 ( )
Unfollowed in AI Open Water
Acrylic paint, papercuts, surgical blades and optically clear PU resin cast clouds on wood and aluminium
Series of 3 (each a unique likeness)
w151 x h97cm
16 ( )
Unfollowed
Acrylic paint, papercuts and optically clear PU resin cast clouds on wood and aluminium
Edition of 40 (blue) + 15 (pink)
w61 x h80cm
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Photography: Anna Arca
Catalogue Design: Peter Roden for Leighton Space
Additional Photography: Peter Roden
Massive thank you to the studio team for their help and hard work: Hazal Demirel and Sue Lee – it wouldn’t have happened without the hours and dedication you
Spike Taylor Manson and Onni Aho for helping to bring
Extra special thanks to Diego Martínez and Daniela
Thanks to Duncan Forbes, Leigh Borg, Daniel Brain
And to Rach – she’s been part of this from the start
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