Berlin based Artist, Simon Weckert places the digital world at the helm of his practice by calling to attention the [re] distribution of information through the formation of code, generative design and all things related in a complex of digital transmission and technology. Asserting that future generations should consider their privileged position and obligation to interrogate the hidden layers of production, Weckert manipulates and hacks into unseen infrastructures assigned to the digital commands of technological advances used in political and socio-power structures.

 

Maps from Space (2017) reconfigures the relationship between the conventional materiality of the printed surface of analog maps as a source of territorial interpretation and the observation of satellite machine-led coordinates from space. The work is conceived as an installation questioning the integrity of the machine in production. He reveals a self-referential circuit of generated numerical data which is used to construct and create real time codified machine patterns of global map making. 

 

A lexicon of the work is printed as book form, the data as, with the traditional analog map, is itself outdated the very moment it appears in a material form. Weckert hacks into the perceived assumption that the generated map is objective, definite and unambiguous, and in doing so exposes an endless data loop of information and machine led erasure.

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