Opens 5–9pm Friday 21 October 2011
12–5pm 22–30 October 2011

Unit 12, Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RT

Crowd 6 will be hosting a group exhibition with works by digital practice If We Don’t, Remember Me and artists Elizabeth Short, S. Varndell and Michelle Wienstein.

“Language is fundamentally a combinatorial system” – Elizabeth Spelke

The Infinite Combinatorium: Part 1, is a curatorial experiment created by Crowd6. At the heart of the Infinite Combinatorium, artworks infinitely recombine to form new works, new patterns and emergent qualities. With each new artist, and each new installation the system learns, produces and begins to reflect on itself.

Entering The Infinite Combinatroium Part 1, are newly commissioned digital works by If We Don’t, Remember Me, which draw on the world of film to create seamlessly repeating loops, locking subjects inside the uncanny moment of a single gesture.

These are complimented by the intricate paintings of New York based Michelle Weinstein. The abstract geometry of Weinstein’s work displays a systematic approach, a visual circuitry reminiscent of a Mandelbrot set, gently drawing the viewer between magnitudes of scale. The work of Elizabeth Short further explores these notions through a project that uses the Google Maps platform and photography to create a body of work that investigates the connection between the hyper-global and the hyper-local. In a series of new photographic works, Short photographs abandoned and derelict spaces before giving them entries on Google maps, re-contextualizing the dead spaces of the urban landscape.

Inspired by contemporary theories of language acquisition and the role of words in developing thought processes, S Varndell’s work Study For a Mind’s Eye, is a constantly shifting digital collage that takes and re-presents the artwork that has been shown in the The Infinite Combinatorium, Part 1 and it’s predecessor the Infinite Combinatorium Part 0. As a child creates new thoughts by re-combining existing words, Study For a Mind’s Eye creates new works by re-combining artworks with each other over and over in an attempt to generate new, emergent qualities and meanings.