Poor Image Projects Presents: 9 Billion Names of God

9,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Names of God is a new body of work by Victor Svedberg, Douglas Dixon-Barker and Jamie Hudson.

This project responds to Arthur C. Clarkes short story ’The Nine Billion Names of God’. In this text, Clarke uses the machine as an allegory for mechanisation, mass production and resourceful human curiosity. Clarke’s machine represents the slow death of all that we know, as in reality, it introduces the material conditions for imminent and unfussy world destruction.

The artists will attempt to name god by locating and compounding a cache of automatic recordings of machine interactions, acting as sceptical doom-bringers.

Victor Svedberg is an artist, graphic designer and musician from Gothenburg, Sweden. His overlapping disciplines are linked by a willingness to connect and enhance seemingly different parts to a larger, often spiritual, context.

Douglas Dixon-Barker is a filmmaker currently based in Leeds. His work is focused on the creation of alternative spaces.

Jamie Hudson is a Gothenburg based artist and designer. He uses practices of material production, aggregation and consumption to explore the mess of lived experience.