Collaboration: Nayari Castillo & Hanns Holger Rutz
Framework: Atelier Bursary of the region of Styria / Simularr
Funding: Land Steiermark / FWF PEEK AR170
Exhibition Space: Neue National Galerie, Joanneum Viertel, Graz, AT
Materials: Metal, magnifying glasses, mini-computers, video-display, movement sensors, light sensors, transducers, cables, ceramic plates, bio-materials
A Rogue is a thing that lives with you, a multi-sensory and multi-modal object, perhaps sitting somewhere, in an exhibition space, or a private space, or outside waiting for the birds. Nobody has seen or heard a Rogue yet, but it is estimated to be about the size of a human child. Like other creatures, one might be of a different dimension than the other. A Rogue is a thing that emits sound and image; it takes in sensations of its surroundings. It is not a surveillance device; its senses are, for example, touch, proximity, and light. It is a body with rudimentary organs, they are part of an experiment. When there are several Rogues in a space, one (or they) can make connections between them. A Rogue grows a memory of its place, accumulating sensor data, employing algorithms, and adopting fragments of data from other Rogues. They obtain their name from multiple origins.
The piece was shown at Neue Galerie Graz between December 2022 and November 2023, and on a second occasion, in a very expanded version, in 2025.
