Jac Hartje: Algorithmic Landscapes

Algorithmic Landscapes are works employing 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.

Hartje's previous work A Nowhere Now Here sought to define moments of natural chaos in our regulated built environments. Expanding on queer theorist and academic Jack Halberstam's thoughts of undoing, unbuilding, and unworlding, Algorithmic Landscapes visualises the constraints and constructs of gender, sexuality, race, and class in our domestic and urban spaces.