Don Hunter

Juggernaught

3 August - 21 August

Don Hunter has built a machine that processes identity cards that are posited as marked with individual human retina prints. The machine processes the cards, which all appear identically blank, rejecting some that somehow perceives as different.

Hunter is playing with the idea of how we (societally) react to real and perceived differences. The rejected cards are shredded and blasted into the gallery space thereby forcing the viewer/participant to walk on the remains. Those cards accepted by the machine pass through a slow but inexorable production process, eventually emerging to start the whole process again.

The rejections that we suffer on each other socially and politically are usually visible. The value system that the Jugger-naught uses is opaque. Not being able to predict how acceptability is decided could create a sense of insecurity. How normal are you in the eyes of the commercial industrial machine?

Juggernaught.

In the year 2004, the machine “Iris” was invented to process human data via retinal scans. Iris was designed to minimize human intervention thereby removing error and corruption from the process. However, after sometime the internal machine developed a glitch, processing and rejecting the operator’s who are among the remains under your feet.

Iris mal/functions on without the operator’s…

Don Hunter 3rd August 2306