(Australia)

JANK is a art collective aggregated around the tension between automation and labour. Particularly in relation to theoretics of material kinship, post humanism and conviviality. It is currently comprised of Paige Glancey and Anika Gardner and based Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide, Australia).

Anika is an installation based artist, metal fabricator and graduate computer science student. Academically Anika’s research is in ai and agriculture, focusing on cellular automata and neural network hybrid AI for computer vision. Artistically Anika works across installation, robotics, public art and code, interested in process based understandings and material collusions to dialogue across our relation with technological innovations.

Paige is an emerging video artist with a strong background in video editing and focus on documentary practice. They are interested in online culture and its transient emergent (glitched) aesthetics - brain-rot as the deluge of societal shifts. Paige works in factories and uses this blue-collar insight to feel the tensions of ‘robots will take my job’ as it disaffects material conditions of workers.

These multifaceted backgrounds add depth of detail to the artistic exploration of labour automation with industry insight in both automation and the fields getting automated. Particularly with reference to advanced manufacturing and agriculture. Through new-materialism collusions and semi-archival collations of resultant brain-rot, JANK are interested in creating site-specific conversations. By layering artistic ontological understandings that de-center the human and elevate non-human perspectives in our technological drifts, this collective probes an uncertain future for new trajectories.