Isabelle Levent

the reconfiguration of culture as a domain of not just human-made meanings but also machinic calculation

“Our business has never been about the ease of creating imagery or the resulting volume. It is about connecting and cutting through.”

Imagine an art-lover at an exhibition entitled ‘Dots 2008’. He speaks to two artists, each displaying a painting. In both cases, the art-lover cannot see past the seemingly random arrangement of dots of paint. He mentions this to the first artist, who says: “Oh, no, they’re not randomly placed. Each dot represents a friend of mine. The colour of