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Data Lake
Echo Seireeni
Private View: 2 Nov 2025 6-8:30pm
Exhibition open until 31 Jan 2026
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Data Lake is the first solo exhibition of artist Echo Seireeni.
The exhibition explores Seireeni’s fascination with the progression of technology and its relationship to our pasts. Enter into the worlds of her paintings through their hyperdetailed sceneries, combining pagan and tribal symbolism with early internet histories. Exploring how despite technological shifts and progression a human touch is always present.
SHOW TEXT
Rare earth; vast wastelands of refuse pillaged by children panning for gold embedded in e-waste. Stripping copper from objects turned refuse in a matter of months, the same way marble was stripped from Rome after the fall of the Empire.
Witches and druids meeting in cave-sanctuaries before Celtic battles, casting spells among pillaged objects of war, the ground littered with spear-tips toughened with the ground and charred bones of ancestors. Microsoft seizing the future of the Internet from Netscape in a duel that would define the texture and rhythm of digital life. The Online Profile as the first physical expression of the soul, made sick by corporate monopoly, the atrophy of individuality, the endless masquerade.
The night guard of a windowless concrete data-processing plant might moonlight as a high-class courtesan in this empire of the Data Lake, just as hacker might become a mercenary, bound by blood and binary code to her master. We awake and are presented with endless choice, endless variety; the gothic Temu hairpin or the viral scarf trick to curl hair, Nabisco or Nestlē, lithium car battery or Saudi petrol. The serf chooses red or green cotton for the tunic he wears to perform the labor he was born into. The Vietnam War infantryman picks out a name for his rifle. North Korean ripoffs of Samba trainers ripping off 80s tennis gear.
On AUTO GOD
“Frantic mobilization conceals a more fundamental immobility at the core of society. In the West, frantic social activity conceals the basic sameness of global capitalism, the absence of an Event. In the expectation of a Messianic event, life comes to a standstill.” Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real
The protagonist gives himself over to the machine, is perversely fascinated with the entities which threaten to destroy him and his bloodline. Waking up as if in a trance, guided by ghosts, cold air buffeting his goosebumped skin. The overpass is empty this time of night, outlines of treasure-trash glowing faintly in the wan light of a starless sky and impotent moon.
Our gods are no longer found in churches, in religious texts, or confessional booths; our pagan idols have cold, metallic logos for faces, glinting like bioluminescent predators in the dark ocean.
First Browser War
By 1995, Netscape had just emerged as the leading browser in the rapidly changing landscape of the newborn Internet. Microsoft, realizing the massive business potential that lay in the early Internet, began a campaign to ‘cut off Netscape’s air supply’, as alleged by a top Microsoft employee interviewed as part of a landmark lawsuit filed in 2001 regarding Microsoft’s monopolization of the web browser market. The corporation developed a competing browser, Internet Explorer, which rapidly overtook Netscape within a matter of months thanks to Microsoft’s repository of manpower, money and resources. This would set the scene for Microsoft to dominate the software market; the algorithms and programs that were developed during this period would go on to define the function and feel of the Internet as we use it today, fundamentally changing humanity on a behavioral and physical level.
Among Celtic peoples, witches and druids would perform rituals before and during battles, in sanctuaries filled with war-objects and symbolic trophies.
“The instrumental definition of technology is indeed so uncannily correct that it even holds for modern technology, of which, in other respects, we maintain with some justification that it is, in contrast to the older handicraft technology, something completely different and therefore new.” Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology
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