Between Signal

Between Signal brings together the work of five artists whose practices occupy the space between design, computation, motion, and perception. Working across creative coding, generative systems, digital simulation, typography, and interaction, Zach Lieberman, Vincent Schwenk, Kiel Mutschelknaus, Seohyo Hyojung, and Tom Bates each employ systems not simply as tools, but as creative collaborators. Rather than producing fixed outcomes, they establish conditions from which images, movements, forms, and experiences emerge through variation, iteration, and exchange.

While each artist approaches computation differently, they share an interest in what occurs when structure gives way to possibility. Algorithms become gestures. Code becomes image. Motion becomes language. Simulated materials acquire a tactile presence, while typography stretches beyond communication into performance. Across the exhibition, systems are not presented as mechanisms of control or efficiency, but as frameworks capable of surprise, ambiguity, play, and poetic expression.

The title, Between Signal, points toward the intervals where meaning is neither fixed nor complete. It suggests the space between instruction and emergence, machine logic and human intuition, observation and participation. These works resist singular interpretation, instead inviting viewers to witness translation as an active process: between code and image, algorithm and gesture, abstraction and recognition. Computation, in this context, is not simply a technical process but an expressive language—one that continually negotiates relationships between artist, system, and audience.

Although rooted in contemporary computational practices, the exhibition ultimately asks timeless questions about creativity itself. Where does authorship reside when outcomes are shaped by systems? How does a rule become a form of expression? At what point does a process become a collaborator? The artists assembled here offer different answers, yet together they propose that the most compelling works emerge not from absolute control but from dialogue—with code, with chance, with material, and with those who encounter the work.

In bringing together local, national, and international voices, Between Signal reflects a broader moment within contemporary art in which computation has evolved beyond utility to become a medium of inquiry. Here, technology is neither celebrated nor critiqued for its own sake; instead, it becomes a means of exploring perception, translation, and imagination. The exhibition invites viewers to inhabit the spaces between certainty and possibility, where signals cease to function merely as instructions and become experiences completed through human presence.