Project: Entropic Systems
Artist: Laleh Mehran
Curator: Louise Martorano
Booth 1363

Laleh Mehran’s Entropic Systems is an immersive installation that considers the politicization of ideologies, dictating responses to activities outside and within its borders. Analogous to doctrines imposed by governments or systems on people, the “drawing” machine seeks to instill pattern and order, operating hypnotically and rhythmically. In this work, the machine inscribes a sort of memory into the mineral bed, much like a rudimentary hard drive. Each day the past is erased, but at the same time, the grains will never sit the same again, containing remains of history much in the way that AI is trained with billions of words and yet “remembers” none of them.