Langlands & Bell explore human social and cultural relationships, from the personal to the political, by looking at architecture and the structures that we build and inhabit.

"The artists are among the most astute observers of the way technology is transforming our view of architecture." Financial Times

Infinite Loop, the title of this body of work, is a reference to a piece of coding that repeats itself indefinitely. These art works explore current dialogues around the increasingly pervasive influence of information technology, the rise of generative AI, machine learning and the companies which control it.

“In 2014 when we first began exploring the architecture of the Internet Giants and discovered on the internet their massive new headquarters buildings under construction, we knew the World had entered a new era and a paradigm shift had taken place in the way these companies perceived themselves and wanted to be seen.”

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Nvidia (Santa Clara), 2016

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Langlands & Bell depict the new headquarters buildings of the Gates Foundation, Nvidia, Apple, in the US and IBM in Beijing, collective nerve centres of our tech-saturated age. At the time these works were made, there was little public dialogue about the role and influence of AI, Meta did not exist and remote working was not the norm. Today the technology giants continue to expand, shaping every aspect of our lives from text and image generation, to how we live and work.

Apple (Oblique), 2016

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For each composition, the artists created digital drawings of the architectural models they made, sourcing plans, photos and drone footage on the internet. They isolated each structure, removing all extraneous detail to focus on the most symbolic or revealing elements. Each drawing is placed on a bold, colour-field background, referencing twentieth century modernism, in particular the practices of the Bauhaus and its continuing influence on global design and architecture.

“The belle of the ball is the Apple HQ in Cupertino, California – a ring-shaped, spaceship-like building commissioned by the late Steve Jobs and designed by Foster + Partners. With a circumference of one mile, it is unprecedented in scale and ambition. But by presenting it in top view, the artists emphasise its circular shape, which has parallels throughout historical architecture.

Like the Colosseum, and by extension the Roman Empire, the Apple building stands for universal vision, but also the centralisation of might." 

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Gates Foundation (Seattle), 2016

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“Bringing a clinical precision to their subjects, they lay their victims on the operating table and conduct a cool-headed autopsy, peeling back façades and lifting off rooftops to lay bare the bones of power for all to see.”

The Guardian

IBM (Beijing), 2016

Archival inkjet on 310gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White paper
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Paper and image 75 x 75 cm each
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“As with the cathedrals and castles of the middle ages, the baroque palaces and gardens of the enlightenment, and the factories and railway stations of the industrial revolution, one of the things we’re exploring with these art works is whether this new architecture is era-defining - the architecture of the twenty-first century, and whether architecture as a whole still has this role to play in the ‘Information Age’, or what we might more accurately term an 'age of algorithms'.

With AI upon us the societal changes now underway are so far-reaching and so totally disruptive that it's increasingly hard to envisage what will happen next in almost any sphere of life.

Despite this it's easy to imagine that the next President of the USA might be one of the founder CEOs of the Internet Giants, or even an AI avatar entity?”

- Langlands & Bell

Infinite Loop has been selected for IN/SITU at the 2025 edition of EXPO Chicago Contemporary Art Fair. This curated section of the fair features artists foregrounding critical and generative practices of exchange.

View the works at EXPO Chicago Contemporary Art Fair, Chicago, 24 - 27 April 2025.

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Photos:
Huge construction site, office building Apple Campus II, architect Norman Foster, Cupertino. imageBROKER / Alamy Stock Photo.
Ben Langlands & Nikki Bell with Apple Oblique and Nvidia. 2025. Courtesy of Langlands & Bell.