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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CREATIVE AWARD
ISCA (International Students Creative Award) is an international arts and information media competition for universities, graduate schools and vocational schools, sponsored by the Knowledge Capital Association. It is an international competition open to students from Japan and around the globe.
Republik Užupis
Max Haarich (DE), Rafael Hostettler (CH)
The Munich embassy of the Lithuanian artist republic Užupis brings together cutting-edge AI engineers, rebellious artists and high-ranking policy makers to promote innovations that are more accessible, inspired and ethical. The embassy is one of the rare arts-related initiatives actively engaging in international policy design for AI. We employ the first artificially intelligent diplomat, Roboy.
Define Sentience
MA Interactive Technologies of Performative and Media Arts, CINETic (The International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies), University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale,” Bucharest, Romania.
Define Sentience explores the impact of technological advancement on human emotions and social interactions. The project is the result of research conducted at the International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies (CINETic) in Bucharest. CINETic’s mission is to develop knowledge and to innovate at the international level in the fields of performing arts and film, as well as in the fields that lead to their growth and transformation. The knowledge acquired in theatre and film is expanded through research within interdisciplinary projects that bring together art, science and technology.
This is grown.
Jen Keane (US)
This is grown. was motivated by a frustration with plastics and a visible disparity between scientific research and design manifestations around natural materials. Taking an organism-driven approach to material design, the project began under the premise that a greater understanding of nature could help us not just replace the petrochemical based materials of today with more sustainable ones, but perhaps allow us to devise entirely new systems of making and categories of materials previously unimagined. After all, nature has had 3.8 billion years to perfect the ultimate circular economy: Life. Maybe we can still learn something.
Meanwhile In China
Yang Mu & Sai Bao – Matthias Schäfer (DE), Sofia Braga (IT)
Douyin 抖音, internationally known as TikTok, has become one of the world’s most successful apps and a leading platform for creating and sharing short videos. It was developed by Beijingbased Bytedance and is one of the few apps that has been successful outside the big firewall. To comply with Chinese law, Douyin is a completely independent app from TikTok. Although the user interface and logo look the same, the content is completely different and not accessible in the international version. The goal of this work is to explore and analyze this vast digital ecosystem from different perspectives: screenshots capture a moment in a rapidly changing environment, determined by Douyin’s artificially intelligent recommendation algorithm. These found images are then decontextualized without change to give visitors space and opportunity to think about them and gain insights into a delimited platform and its algorithms used to show you the most engaging content.
Modified Paradise: Dress
AnotherFarm (JP)
Modified Paradise is a series of sculptural works made from “luminescent silk” – created by genetically modified silkworms developed by adding the genes of glowing jellyfish and corals. The dress, which floats within a frame with no body, aims to encourage us to think about the extremes and limitations of the interaction between art, science, and technology.
The Seeker
Nye Thompson (UK)
The Seeker is a proto-AI that travels the world virtually looking through compromised surveillance camera eyes and describing its visions. Named for Ptah-Seker, the artist/technologist god of Ancient Egypt, who created the world by speaking the words to describe it, this project looks at how the act of describing the world might establish a whole new worldview for machines and humans alike.
Screenshot TV
Stella Markidi (GR), Patricia Cadavid H. (CO)
*Screenshot TV* is an installation that invites visitors to watch a new genre of reality TV. Every few seconds, the TV shows another online screenshot, uploaded to a special website by anonymous people using a screenshot tool, so that the information can be shared by simply sending a URL. The URLs are usually sent privately, but are public and accessible to everyone. However, sometimes users upload screenshots that contain important and sensitive information and forget that the Internet is a virtual space with transparent walls.
Particle Post
Yuri Tanaka (JP), Pavle Dinulović (RS), Umut Kose (TR), Chris Bruckmayr (AT)
Receiving cosmic muons through a scintillator detector, the postbox subtly emits sound and light as a direct consequence of every particle it detects. It is through this process that the implied aesthetics of the unperceivable are explored, as are the means by which it could be indirectly appreciated in different ways through the bodies and minds of humans.
ANIMATIONSINSTITUT OF THE FILM ACADAMY BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
Animationsinstitut, part of Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, is one of the world’s leading film schools, offering the areas of study “Animation Artist,” “Effects Artist,” “Animation/Effects Producing,” “Technical Directing,” and “Interactive Media.” This screening features some of the latest and greatest student projects realized at Animationsinstitut.
