CURRENT PROJECT
ON SHOW 16 APRIL-25 MAY @ LIBRARY AT THE DOCK CLICK HERE
Algorithmic Landscapes.
Algorithmic Landscapes is a series of works employing expanded photography, printmaking, and sculptural disciplines. Hartje's practice focuses on contemporary domestic and urban life, finding themselves drawn to urban waste lands, waterways, and sites of dereliction. They began working with space and pattern through materials such as tape, string, projections, and shadow play as methods for interrogating our built environments. Algorithmic Landscapes visualises the constraints and constructs of gender, sexuality, race, and class in our domestic and urban spaces. Taking images captured during meditative walks of their city, Hartje re-creates these spaces via an algorithmic method of manipulation – finding the information, isolating it, perfecting it, formulating it, propagating it, repeating it – a process akin to industrial production, urban regulation, and intelligent algorithms. The resulting infinite patterns Hartje sees as a conceptual mapping of the systems which construct, administer and delegate our physical and virtual environs and ecologies.
About Jac.
Jac Hartje is a multi-disciplinary artist based on Djaara Country in central Victoria. Hartje is an art-worker and artist whose practice is a combination of independent studio work and collaborative arts engagement projects. Their studio work centers on experimental photography, printmaking, and sculpture, focused on our domestic and urban environments. Their arts engagement projects seek to find ways to nurture emerging and experimental art while improving access and engagement in contemporary art across regional Victoria.
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Recent Projects.
Jac is a strong advocate for accessible arts programs and spends their free time heading up Rookie Artists Inc. The aim of this organisation is to deliver contemporary arts engagement opportunities for both artists and the community. Now in its fourth year the team at Rookie have delivered numerous exhibitions from their shop space and two Cut + Paste festivals.
They also love to engage other with artists through collaborative projects working on print exchanges, large scale works for City of Bendigo and La Trobe Art Institute, and an upcoming group exhibition.
Cut + Paste Opening 2024
Rookie Exhibition Opening 2023
CreateLab Collab project 2023
I ❤ nd$c_pe - with Fyerool Darma LAI. 2023
Jac Hartje 2024 All images are property of the artist.