Robin Leverton
Steward
Steward is a dialog between audience and environment. Featuring a procedurally generated terrain, slowly decaying over time, Steward records images of this landscape as vignettes printed out as postcards. The world evolves and changes, revealing yellow skies, purple sunsets, palm trees, mountaintops and grand floods to those curious enough to nurture them.
Steward is a dialog between audience and environment. Featuring a procedurally generated terrain, slowly decaying over time, Steward records images of this landscape as vignettes printed out as postcards. The world evolves and changes, revealing yellow skies, purple sunsets, palm trees, mountaintops and grand floods to those curious enough to nurture them. Instructions Preserve/Neglect/Extract You are invited to engage with Steward as you see fit. You may wish to observe the landscape as it changes automatically or at the hands of others. You may wish to take a postcard for enjoyment or posterity. Or you may wish to directly interact with the simulated environment. For the latter, please follow these instructions below: 1. Please take a recently printed postcard 2. Insert it QR code side up into the plinth, above the sign stating “insert here” 3. When the buttons light up, press the one corresponding to the aspect of the simulated world you would like to change.
Robin Leverton is a 26 year old, London-based artist studying for an MFA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths, with a background in Fine Art, Product Design, Set Design and 3D Art for Games. Leverton's work investigates systemic collapse through installation and performance. Utilising robotics, machine learning and computer vision, Leverton constructs dynamic relationships between audiences and their environment to question their role in its collapse. Through this lens Leverton seeks to develop analogies to the fractal self-similar systems that govern our societies and environment. By creating systems that are designed to fail, he aims to draw attention to the compulsory participation within a global economy that is destroying both our planet and our societies.
