Infinite Loop, IN/SITU, EXPO Chicago
24 – 27 April 2025
Infinite Loop 2016 (Silicon Valleys Fortresses) published by Cristea Roberts Gallery has been selected for IN/SITU at the 2025 edition of EXPO Chicago Contemporary Art Fair. This section of the fair curated by Jessica Hong, Chief Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, features artists foregrounding critical and generative practices of exchange.
The title Infinite Loop, refers to a piece of coding that repeats itself indefinitely. The art works explore current dialogues around the increasingly pervasive influence of information technology, the rise of generative AI, machine learning and the companies which control it.
In 2014 when we first began exploring the architecture of the Internet Giants on the internet and discovered their massive new headquarters buildings under construction, we knew the World had entered a new era and a paradigm shift had taken place in the way these companies perceived themselves and wanted to be seen.
As with the cathedrals and castles of the middle ages, the museums and libraries of the enlightenment, and the factories and railway stations of the industrial revolution, one of the things we’re exploring with these art works is whether this new architecture is era-defining – the architecture of the twenty-first century, and whether architecture as a whole still has this role to play in the ‘Information Age’, or what we might more accurately term an ‘age of algorithms’.
With AI upon us the societal changes now underway are so far-reaching and so totally disruptive that it’s increasingly hard to envisage what will happen next in almost any sphere of life. Despite this it’s easy to imagine that the next President of the USA might be one of the founder CEOs of the Internet Giants, or even an AI avatar entity?”
“The artists are among the most astute observers of the way technology is transforming our view of architecture.
“Bringing a clinical precision to their subjects, they lay their victims on the operating table and conduct a cool-headed autopsy, peeling back façades and lifting off rooftops to lay bare the bones of power for all to see.”
“The belle of the ball is the Apple HQ in Cupertino, California – a ring-shaped, spaceship-like building commissioned by the late Steve Jobs and designed by Foster + Partners. With a circumference of one mile, it is unprecedented in scale and ambition. But by presenting it in top view, the artists emphasise its circular shape, which has parallels throughout historical architecture.
Like the Colosseum, and by extension the Roman Empire, the Apple building stands for universal vision, but also the centralisation of might.”
Navy Pier Festival Hall, 600 E. grand Ave, Chicago
VIP days
Thursday 24 April
Public Days
Friday 25 April: 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday 26 April: 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 27 April: 11 am 3- 6 pm
Photo of installation by Mikhail Mishin
