Selenographia
Ink on Paper, data images generated with custom machine learning program, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Wide Angle Camera (WAC)
40W x 50H x 10D each, in pairs
Selenographia is four pairs of moon drawings produced by Selena, a drawbot built by hand and programmed by the artist using reappropriated artists’ tools such as a drawing board, canvas and the legs from an easel. The machine produces visualizations of the Moon that are not directly visible to the human eye with high level of detail. These drawings are based on the latest moon imagery available through NASA, showing a complete moon images both from near side and far side of the moon. The drawings have been created with machine learning programming which allows an algorithm to compose one image in the style of another image. As such, the drawings are made to appear from the hand of 17th-century astronomer Johannes Hevelius, the founder of lunar topography, and author of acclaimed book of lunar maps and diagrams Selenographia, but based on the latest open source images from NASA.
Artist Bio
Phoebe Hui is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher primarily working in the relationship between language, sound and technology. Her recent projects increasingly rely on interdisciplinary ideas drawn from the machine learning, philosophy of science, system aesthetics and the concept of indeterminacy. Hui received her MFA at UCLA Design Media Art, Los Angeles, her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and her BA in Creative
Media from City University of Hong Kong.
She is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including the 5th Audemars Piguet Art Commission selected artist, HKETO Yale-China Art Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Development Council Young Artist Award (Media Art), Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship, Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award, Asian Cultural Council United States-Japan Arts Program Research Fellowship,Hong Kong Art Development Council Art Scholarship, Hong Kong Design Association Design
Student Scholarship, among others. She has presented her research-based art practice and papers globally at venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, the MIT Media Lab, Asian Contemporary Art Week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
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Affordable Art Fair 2021
Date：26 / 8 — 29 / 8 / 2021
Venue：C05, Hall 1E, HKCEC
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