Journeys
LOOPS OF WISDOM Highlights, Guided Tour
University of Art and Design Linz (AT)
This highlight tour will take you on a journey through the LOOPS OF WISDOM exhibitions, as well as the exhibition of our partner university Zurich Academy of the Arts, along with some of the best talks and lectures of the Academy of Thoughts, and some backstory about how the Sound Campus has evolved in its second year.
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.
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.
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.
FuneralPlay
Ruini Shi (UK)
A new technology start-up company claims to offer a certain kind of ”immortality”: users can choose between erasing the deceased’s electronic footprint or uploading it to the virtual heaven, permanently secured and published on an immutable blockchain, allowing the addition of remembrance NFTs to the memorial.
Spaces Camouflaged by AI
KyungJin Jeong (KR)
As a highly developed photographic technology, image distortion can be created via photo-editing software. With enough pictures, machine learning can determine attributes. I will explore the gap between advertising and reality by visiting a common room in a single house in Seoul.
