Archimeters focuses on Ordos – a near empty ghost town in Inner Mongolia, China which has been newly built but remains almost entirely empty.

The work lays out a plan for appropriating the town and constructing “a fully integrated auto-poietic and auto-effective mechanism”.

From a central point within the empty Ordos Art Museum the plan is described, particularly focussing on ‘effects’ and ‘affects’ referencing both the physical and virtual structure of the town and the video’s own construction.

The digital effects used at certain points within the editing software are exposed in textual form “signal blur at 30%” – as if the video is itself becoming an auto-poietic mechanism.

The text that forms the voice over is appropriated from software testing handbooks and has been used due to its focus on creating a fully integrated and predictable, self-sufficient system, that continually improves itself and enhances its method of control over all things.

Shows include: The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery; i am algorithm (solo), Aspex, Portsmouth and Exeter Phoenix Gallery.