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Accessing what you always knew you needed
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (UK)
How do you access your past when it doesn’t exist anymore? How do you see yourself when the world refuses to reflect you? How do you archive someone who has been erased by the archive? We know who we are. We feel the loss of our history with every moment we breathe. With each story we remember another is lost. We need each other. We kept each other here. Yet we hardly seem to exist.
Black Movement Library
LaJuné McMillian (US)
BML is a library for activists, performers & artists to create diverse XR projects, a space to research how and why we move, and an archive of Black existence. BML seeks to grow community through the use of performances, XR experiences, workshops, conversations and toolmaking.
The illness of the consciousness is corruption - smell and think.
Oswaldo Macia (CO/UK) – artist, Emilia Leszkowicz (PL) – scientist, Chris Bean (IE) – scientist
The Colombian artist Oswaldo Maciá and scientists Chris Bean (Head of Geophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) and Emilia Leszkowicz (electrophysiologist based at University of Gdansk) are the residents of the STUDIOTOPIA Art&Science Residency hosted by LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk. The aim of their common project is to raise questions connected with the ways of reaching viewers’ consciousness by use of through the senses of smell and hearing to raise the question about our place in the world.
Merging experiences
Evelina Domnitch (BY, NL) and Dmitry Gelfand (NL)
Science is the source of inspiration for many of the artworks of Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand. Scientists are also fascinated by art. A portrait of interactions merges the borders of disciplines from the perspective of the intriguing and the inquisitive.
Expanded Animation Symposium 2021
The symposium stays the course originally set at its inception and presents theoretical positions and perspectives from the art world, the R&D field and the industrial sector.
Ubuntu - The Other Me!
Simon Weckert (DE)
The video journey wants to create a dialog between the artworks by the artist and AI-driven technologies in the process of making and creating.
Made to Measure – I is a Search Engine
Gruppe Laokoon (DE), Cosima Terrasse (FR), Moritz Riesewieck (DE), Hans Block (DE)
BML is a library for activists, performers & artists to create diverse XR. Is it possible to create the doppelganger of someone using only their personal Google data? This question stood at the core of the project Made to Measure. Using personal online data, the group Laokoon created a doppelganger of a person they did not know, telling "her" story.
STUDIOTOPIA Journeys
Within the initiative STUDIOTOPIA, seven European cultural institutions have invited artists to host scientists in their studios, and it is the hope that these collaborations build upon this shared knowledge. The journeys featured in this year’s festival offer a glimpse of how these encounters can shape a new understanding the role and responsibilities of humanity on our shared planet.
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab Journeys
In addition to scientific, technological and economic aspects, the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab focuses strongly on legal, cultural, educational and ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence. This allows a holistic model that considers human values and elementary questions of what AI should or should not do, as well as how AI systems are developed, deployed, used and monitored, and by whom.
How To Strand Astronauts on the Moon
Halsey Burgund (US), Francesca Panetta (UK)
The narrative of In Event of Moon Disaster is a journey; a journey filled with the technical and emotional triumphs of individuals and a nation that ultimately comes to a tragic end on the lunar surface.
