The Wyllieum

Gallery 1: from 16th October 2024

“A Wee Multitude of Questions”

Scul?ture by George Wyllie

Volunteer

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THE UPSTAIRS BASEMENT

As well as being our community making space, The Upstairs Basement plays host to exhibitions by local artists.

UPCOMING ARTISTS:

FROM 8th NOVEMBER:

Derek Mitchell

"In this new body of work Derek Mitchell follows a line of inquiry that spans the Dadaists’ ‘Poems’, through William Burroughs’ ‘Cut-ups’, to Jeff Noon’s intellectual manipulation of text in his ‘Cobralingus’ of 2001. Mitchell applies 21st Century technology to these techniques of chance and reassembly by using A.I. to ‘cut-up’ and remix his own archive of drawings, prints and photographs from the past 15 years. Like Noon, he uses the analogy of the language of electronic music, applying filters to decay, combine and refine his visual artworks.

Much of the current critique around generative A.I. focusses on its assimilation of other artist’s work, leading to concerns about plagiarism. Mitchell neatly sidesteps this by only asking the Artificial Intelligence to collaborate with his own work. This results in a series of unique new variations on the artists’ work which, while they still retain an uncanny resemblance to what came before them, are in fact digital simulations."

The Wyllieum

Greenock Ocean Terminal

Custom House Way

Greenock

PA15 1EG

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The George Wyllie Foundation 2019 is a charity registered in Scotland no. SC049369

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