Elise Racine

Algorithmic Horizons

2024

Medium:

Digital collage, photographic prints, archival pigment ink on paper, UV-print on acrylic or aluminum panel, digital manipulation (Photoshop, generative design tools)

"Algorithmic Horizons" explores the evolving relationship between human-built environments and the invisible computational systems that increasingly shape our urban spaces. This series creates a visual dialogue between industrial architecture and algorithmic patterns, revealing the transition from human-centric built environments to posthuman landscapes governed by digital oversight.

Through careful digital manipulation, concrete structures become intertwined with coded patterns that simultaneously fragment and transform familiar cityscapes. The work materializes the invisible algorithms that increasingly colonize our built environments, exposing how surveillance technologies mediate our experience of physical spaces while establishing new hierarchies of control and access.

Drawing from queer perspectives on surveillance and categorization, the stark geometric patterns hint at the omnipresence of algorithmic oversight and its potential impact on bodies that resist binary classification. The vibrant color zones juxtaposed against monochromatic elements suggest how digital systems segment, categorize, and process urban reality according to their own logic.

The series directly engages with the tensions central to the Fractured Horizons exhibition: the rupture between industrial legacy and digital future, the emergence of posthuman cities where technology shapes environments previously centered around human needs, and the fractured narratives that emerge as we navigate between nostalgia for industrial pasts and anxiety about speculative futures.

By visualizing these liminal spaces where physical architecture meets algorithmic abstraction, "Algorithmic Horizons" invites viewers to consider how our relationship with built environments is being fundamentally transformed by the computational systems that increasingly mediate our experience of the world.

Algorithmic Cityscapes
Algorithmic Colonialism
Web of Influence, or AI is Everywhere
Glitch Binary Abyss (Diptych)
Algorithmic Cityscapes
Algorithmic Colonialism
Web of Influence, or AI is Everywhere
Glitch Binary Abyss (Diptych)

About the Artist

Elise Racine

Elise Racine is an award-winning artist, scholar, and activist based in Washington DC, whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, digital art, collage, mixed media, video art, sculpture, and poetry. Her work inhabits the liminal between visibility and concealment, exploring how unseen forces shape our lived experiences and the ethereal digital infrastructures governing modern society. This exploration of transitional states and liminal spaces directly aligns with Fractured Horizons' examination of the space between industrial legacy and posthuman futures.

Drawing from her lived experience as a queer woman, her cross-media investigations offer nuanced perspectives on how digital systems concentrate power while distributing harms to marginalized populations. Key themes in her work include vulnerability, fragility, endurance, equity, representation, visibility, identity, and belonging—creating a powerful dialogue with the exhibition's "Fractured Narratives" theme by capturing tensions between technological nostalgia and future anxiety.

As founder and creative director of de PALOMA and a founding member of Oxford University's Arts, Health and Ethics Collective, Elise integrates artistic experimentation with academic inquiry to translate complex concepts into accessible experiences. Her practice deliberately navigates the boundary between human-centered environments and technological ecologies, manifesting the "Horizons of the Posthuman City" by visualizing spaces where human centrality gives way to systems shaped by technology. Through layered abstractions and manipulated perspectives, she creates spectral distortions that challenge perceptual certainties, inviting viewers to confront both industrial legacies and speculative futures.

Elise Racine

Algorithmic Horizons

2024

Medium:

Digital collage, photographic prints, archival pigment ink on paper, UV-print on acrylic or aluminum panel, digital manipulation (Photoshop, generative design tools)

"Algorithmic Horizons" explores the evolving relationship between human-built environments and the invisible computational systems that increasingly shape our urban spaces. This series creates a visual dialogue between industrial architecture and algorithmic patterns, revealing the transition from human-centric built environments to posthuman landscapes governed by digital oversight.

Through careful digital manipulation, concrete structures become intertwined with coded patterns that simultaneously fragment and transform familiar cityscapes. The work materializes the invisible algorithms that increasingly colonize our built environments, exposing how surveillance technologies mediate our experience of physical spaces while establishing new hierarchies of control and access.

Drawing from queer perspectives on surveillance and categorization, the stark geometric patterns hint at the omnipresence of algorithmic oversight and its potential impact on bodies that resist binary classification. The vibrant color zones juxtaposed against monochromatic elements suggest how digital systems segment, categorize, and process urban reality according to their own logic.

The series directly engages with the tensions central to the Fractured Horizons exhibition: the rupture between industrial legacy and digital future, the emergence of posthuman cities where technology shapes environments previously centered around human needs, and the fractured narratives that emerge as we navigate between nostalgia for industrial pasts and anxiety about speculative futures.

By visualizing these liminal spaces where physical architecture meets algorithmic abstraction, "Algorithmic Horizons" invites viewers to consider how our relationship with built environments is being fundamentally transformed by the computational systems that increasingly mediate our experience of the world.

Algorithmic Cityscapes
Algorithmic Colonialism
Web of Influence, or AI is Everywhere
Glitch Binary Abyss (Diptych)

About the Artist

Elise Racine

Elise Racine is an award-winning artist, scholar, and activist based in Washington DC, whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, digital art, collage, mixed media, video art, sculpture, and poetry. Her work inhabits the liminal between visibility and concealment, exploring how unseen forces shape our lived experiences and the ethereal digital infrastructures governing modern society. This exploration of transitional states and liminal spaces directly aligns with Fractured Horizons' examination of the space between industrial legacy and posthuman futures.

Drawing from her lived experience as a queer woman, her cross-media investigations offer nuanced perspectives on how digital systems concentrate power while distributing harms to marginalized populations. Key themes in her work include vulnerability, fragility, endurance, equity, representation, visibility, identity, and belonging—creating a powerful dialogue with the exhibition's "Fractured Narratives" theme by capturing tensions between technological nostalgia and future anxiety.

As founder and creative director of de PALOMA and a founding member of Oxford University's Arts, Health and Ethics Collective, Elise integrates artistic experimentation with academic inquiry to translate complex concepts into accessible experiences. Her practice deliberately navigates the boundary between human-centered environments and technological ecologies, manifesting the "Horizons of the Posthuman City" by visualizing spaces where human centrality gives way to systems shaped by technology. Through layered abstractions and manipulated perspectives, she creates spectral distortions that challenge perceptual certainties, inviting viewers to confront both industrial legacies and speculative futures.

Elise Racine

Algorithmic Horizons

2024

Medium:

Digital collage, photographic prints, archival pigment ink on paper, UV-print on acrylic or aluminum panel, digital manipulation (Photoshop, generative design tools)

"Algorithmic Horizons" explores the evolving relationship between human-built environments and the invisible computational systems that increasingly shape our urban spaces. This series creates a visual dialogue between industrial architecture and algorithmic patterns, revealing the transition from human-centric built environments to posthuman landscapes governed by digital oversight.

Through careful digital manipulation, concrete structures become intertwined with coded patterns that simultaneously fragment and transform familiar cityscapes. The work materializes the invisible algorithms that increasingly colonize our built environments, exposing how surveillance technologies mediate our experience of physical spaces while establishing new hierarchies of control and access.

Drawing from queer perspectives on surveillance and categorization, the stark geometric patterns hint at the omnipresence of algorithmic oversight and its potential impact on bodies that resist binary classification. The vibrant color zones juxtaposed against monochromatic elements suggest how digital systems segment, categorize, and process urban reality according to their own logic.

The series directly engages with the tensions central to the Fractured Horizons exhibition: the rupture between industrial legacy and digital future, the emergence of posthuman cities where technology shapes environments previously centered around human needs, and the fractured narratives that emerge as we navigate between nostalgia for industrial pasts and anxiety about speculative futures.

By visualizing these liminal spaces where physical architecture meets algorithmic abstraction, "Algorithmic Horizons" invites viewers to consider how our relationship with built environments is being fundamentally transformed by the computational systems that increasingly mediate our experience of the world.

Algorithmic Cityscapes
Algorithmic Colonialism
Web of Influence, or AI is Everywhere
Glitch Binary Abyss (Diptych)

About the Artist

Elise Racine

Elise Racine is an award-winning artist, scholar, and activist based in Washington DC, whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, digital art, collage, mixed media, video art, sculpture, and poetry. Her work inhabits the liminal between visibility and concealment, exploring how unseen forces shape our lived experiences and the ethereal digital infrastructures governing modern society. This exploration of transitional states and liminal spaces directly aligns with Fractured Horizons' examination of the space between industrial legacy and posthuman futures.

Drawing from her lived experience as a queer woman, her cross-media investigations offer nuanced perspectives on how digital systems concentrate power while distributing harms to marginalized populations. Key themes in her work include vulnerability, fragility, endurance, equity, representation, visibility, identity, and belonging—creating a powerful dialogue with the exhibition's "Fractured Narratives" theme by capturing tensions between technological nostalgia and future anxiety.

As founder and creative director of de PALOMA and a founding member of Oxford University's Arts, Health and Ethics Collective, Elise integrates artistic experimentation with academic inquiry to translate complex concepts into accessible experiences. Her practice deliberately navigates the boundary between human-centered environments and technological ecologies, manifesting the "Horizons of the Posthuman City" by visualizing spaces where human centrality gives way to systems shaped by technology. Through layered abstractions and manipulated perspectives, she creates spectral distortions that challenge perceptual certainties, inviting viewers to confront both industrial legacies and speculative futures.