Detail of Luis Camnitzer, A to Cosmopolite series (2020–2022), Lambda c-type prints in 678 parts, 11 inches x 8 1/2 inches each (© 2023 Luis Camnitzer / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York)
Luis Camnitzer: Arbitrary Order
Luis Camnitzer’s latest Alexander Gray exhibition breaks with algorithmic authority. A longtime critic of big tech, Camnitzer now traces the development of his reasoning from works made in the 1960s to the present. Arbitrary Order centers his new A to Cosmopolite series, in which a vast annotated dictionary comes to life through Google Maps coordinates. Words like “arrest” and “addict” do not correlate to the government agencies enforcing criminalization, but rather to innocuous Long Island businesses around his home, such as “Hair Addict.” In this way, Arbitrary Order condemns artificial intelligence’s inability to grasp political nuance or replicate meaning. — Billie Anania
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