Algorithms are problem-solving operations. They are a set of rules that help us calculate, decode and define. But what happens when these set of rules are ‘queered’?

This exhibition brings together a plurality of voices where identities are understood as always multifarious and in flux. Assuming a polyvocal and intersectional standpoint, Queer Algorithms features artists whose artworks have and are in the process of reconfiguring new algorithms for change against continued systems of exclusion.

Gus Fisher Gallery has worked with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Ending HIV on the presentation of individual panels from the National Aids Memorial Quilt as part of the exhibition. Queer Algorithms showcases artworks by international artists never seen before in Aotearoa working in the mediums of video, installation and internet art.

This exhibition is part of Auckland Arts Festival 2020, and the public programme is supported by the Rule Foundation.

New Zealand Sign Language Interpretations

Introduction to Queer Algorithms
Evan Ifekoya
John Walter
Ursula Mayer, Atom Spirit, 2017

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Samuel Te Kani, To queer or not to queer: What can galleries do to address homophobia? The Spinoff, 5 April 2020.