The power of pixels

Searching to address notions surrounding governance, data, the effects of new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. This latest work, ‘The Power of Pixels’, explores Woody Island (永興島), and the countries pursuing an agenda of extending borders beyond their own territories with specific interest in the South China Sea with its estimated hydrocarbons, specifically natural gas and crude oil. The South China Sea is full of islands, atolls, reefs and other features. The Spratly Islands, Paracel Islands, and various boundaries in the Gulf of Tonkin are part of these disputes. Claims from several sovereign states within the region, namely the Nation of Brunei, the People’s Republic of China, Malaysia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Republic of the Philippines, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Many non-claimant states that want the South China Sea to remain as international waters. For example, United States of America, who are conducting “freedom of navigation” operations to promote this situation. Through video, photography and object, my work looks at information’s materiality, its signs, traces and inevitable abstraction into mathematical code beyond our human comprehension. Traditionally, information equates to knowledge, however, all information with these new technologies has a strong potential to become disinformation. Are we currently experiencing this in our world, what now is the truth?