blood computer (live demo) / building unreasonable computers

Join us for a live exhibition of blood computer , a fully-functional computer built from recycled electronics and human blood simulant. The audience is invited to talk via chatbot to an Erinys: an Ancient Greek goddess who emerged from the blood of Uranus to take vengeance on humans committing crimes against the natural order. She is reincarnated here for a few hours through an assemblage of transducers and homemade electronics, which use sound to exploit blood itself to perform computation. Come watch your words enter and exit the substance of life. — This event is presented alongside our latest exhibition, The Epistemologies of Slop , ​an exhibition exploring how meaning, trust, and culture are produced under conditions of algorithmic excess and generative media. Matthew Caren is an experimental sound artist, engineer, and researcher whose practice unites art and obsessive making. He uses handmade machines and rigorous technical invention to ask questions about memory, opacity, and our relationships to our tools. He is the co-founder of the art & design studio Bad Science and a…