CRITIC'S GUIDE - 24 NOV 2016 GEMMA TIPTON Frieze - Critic's Guide: Dublin, GEMMA TIPTON - 24 NOV 2016 John Cronin, ZXX 8 , 2015, 1.2 x 1.8 m, oil on aluminium. Courtesy: the artist and RHA Galleries, Dublin John Cronin Royal Hibernian Academy 16 November – 21 December If Yuri Pattison looks at how technology both abets and overwhelms, John Cronin draws ideas of artificial intelligence and augmented reality into his lush abstract oil on aluminium paintings. Endeavouring to explore, and depict, how evolving technologies shape and alter perception, the results are a feast. At first, the 14 works simply shimmer and attract. There are rainbows worth of rich and vibrant colours and, with the largest pieces more than five metres long, there’s a lot to grab the attention. Spend time with them, and patterns emerge. The ZXX of the works’ titles (all except for two earlier pieces Augmented