Anicka Yi ñML§ (Nameless), 2025

The work is from a new series, entitled ßRKññK, with which Anicka Yi advances her engagement with algorithmic image-making, deepening the entanglement between generative computation, painterly gesture, and material fluidity. Central to this series is Emptiness, a custom software that orchestrates the interplay of ink-like movement and machine learning, treating computation not as a tool of rigid determinism but as a dynamic field of emergence. Yi’s process resists the binary of human versus machine creativity, instead proposing a model of co-composition—one where algorithms evolve in response to her ongoing studio research, incorporating datasets that capture hand-drawn gestures, chance operations, and intuitive mark-making.