For the exhibition “Architectures of Credibility”, Pattison will present new works detailing the symbolic erasure and destruction of data in relation to recent and historic events. The show explores the anxieties experienced in our relationship with the amorphous shadow of the digital.

The exhibition title “Architectures of Credibility” is a reference to Lawrence Lessig’s theory on how cyberculture establishes identity and credibility.

“That awkward moment you realise that your files are still on the hard drive even though it’s broken and has been rendered useless to you. Someone else, not you, probably the repair person you trusted to retrieve the files to put them on a functional drive can and likely has accessed them. Maybe they’ve even resold your old hard drive for its parts and now someone else has access. They (quite literally if you think about it) have the keys. Room 1014, Mira Hotel, Hong Kong. Edward Snowden is sequestered in a room after revealing to the world he has access to all of our files, with the support of the US Government. He has given the evidence to a filmmaker, a journalist for the UK based Guardian and subsequently to Wikileaks, an international organisation that safe-keeps highly sensitive leaked information. Under forced instruction by GCHQ (the UK Government) the Guardian destroys all materials in their possession related to the leak. Now we are all implicated in the politicised internet. Yuri Pattison’s first solo exhibition at H.M. Klosterfelde points to the clumsiness of this digital media, its brutal dependence on the physical (especially under the command of unseen human hands). Woven through the space is the repositioned detritus of the parts and acts that lead the viewer to this very point in recent history- a Wikileaks server, a thumb-print jabbed motherboard, an image of the world as seen from a chatroom and perhaps most poignantly, a “How To” to this data’s destruction. These are blueprints for a new kind of architecture. This is Architecture of Credibility.”

WORKS

Tower, eavesdrop, overview I
2015

Ikea DETOLF display case black brown From top to bottom Google Cr-48 Chromebook prototype

3,5“ hard drive platter hand held inkjet print on CD slip Macbook Pro track pad 3,5“ hard drive platter Plexi Display stand LED lighting panel 2,5“ hard drive platter screws non-OEM iPhone 4S chassis 1989 Goddess of Democracy Statue (Hong Kong) Bubble wrap Cables Lock, key dust

Tower, eavesdrop, overview II

LED lighting panel Anti static bag Tape 9/11 commission report, page 33, ISBN 0.939-32671-3 (pbk.) Hard drive parts 2,5“ hard drive platter LightJet print PGP Source Code and Internals, ISBN 0-262-24039-4 (hc) DESI PAC ® Cables Lock Dust

Tower, eavesdrop, overview III

3,5“ hard drive platter Plexi Display 3,5“ hard disk drive platter Anti static bag Tape 2,5“ hard drive 2,5“ hard drive platter 1989 godess of democracy statue (Hong Kong) Bubble wrap LED lighting panel British Airways economy aniemety kit Burj Kalifa 3D printed model Cables Lock, key Dust

architectures of credibility (I – V)
2015

MacBook motherboard, USB thumb drive, video file.

http ://www.kxol.com.au/images/pale_blue_dot.jpg < - sums it up for me. (03:18:17 PM)
2013

LightJet print on Kodak Endura paper, mounted on Aluminium

PowerEdge overview
2015

Dell PowerEdge R410 server, 1989 Goddess of Democracy Statue (Hong Kong), LightJet prints, USB hardware wallet, Majestic lock pick set, printed matter, tape