{"id":54330,"date":"2021-10-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T10:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-website.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/platform-graduate-award-2021-bevan-hill-will-griffiths\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T11:59:43","slug":"platform-graduate-award-2021-bevan-hill-will-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/events\/platform-graduate-award-2021-bevan-hill-will-griffiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform Graduate Award 2021 | Bevan Hill &#038; Will Griffiths: Real Art for Real People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Artist duo Bevan Hill &amp; Will Griffiths, recent graduates of Oxford Brookes University, present&nbsp;<em>Real Art for Real People,&nbsp;<\/em>a body of work consisting of four paintings, two sculptures, a video and a book.<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using various AI generative engines, the duo has devised an automated creative process: from the production of concepts by a text generator trained on a dataset of descriptions of well-known artworks, to individual generators that visualise the proposed concepts in both two and three dimensions.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44901\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44901 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Will-Griffiths-_-Bevan-Hill-\u2013-Real-Art-for-Real-People-1-1400x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1400\/500;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bevan Hill &amp; Will Griffiths, <i>Real Art for Real People<\/i>, 2021. Image courtesy the artists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this bounty of readymade works, the duo become the indifferent manufacturers who merely realise the machine\u2019s designs in physical form. This is a reversal of the contemporary conceptual artist-manager, so often detached from material production. Central to the work is an interrogation of the role of the artist, and the value and security of human ways of seeing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The works explore the importance of individual expression and agency in an increasingly automated world, the value of engagement with material processes, and the function and worth of the physical art object in both a consumerist and technocentric society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitors do not need to book a ticket to visit this exhibition. If you are also visiting Anish Kapoor:&nbsp;<em>Painting<\/em>, you will need to book an exhibition ticket&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mao-old.focus-earth.co.uk\/event\/anish-kapoor-painting\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMING SOON:&nbsp;<\/strong>As part of the Platform Graduate Award 2021, discover two other exhibitions by recent fine art graduates. <a href=\"https:\/\/mao-old.focus-earth.co.uk\/event\/platform-graduate-award-2021-fetine-sel-tuzel\/\"><em>places and faces<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em>by Fetine Sel Tuzel (University of Reading) will run from 23 September &#8211; 3 October, and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/mao-old.focus-earth.co.uk\/event\/platform-graduate-award-2021-beth-simcock-zodiac\/\">The Zodiac<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>by&nbsp;Beth Simcock (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) from 21-31 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":54331,"template":"","event_type":[230],"audience":[],"class_list":["post-54330","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_type-archive","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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