POSTCITY
Slime Mold Chess
Hakan Lidbo (SE)
This game is a collaboration between one of our planet’s most simple forms of intelligence and the most advanced. Slime mold and humans.
NARRATION
Narration in the classical sense acquires a new dimension in the digital realm and shows laconically in images, what wouldn’t be possible with words. A little girl dreaming of becoming an astronaut, randomly found film footage casting new light on a deceased father, what will happen when a group of people suddenly lose their self-control – just a few examples of this program.
The Graffiti Project
The Graffiti Project is a live, collaborative, interactive, token-driven art installation. Participants are able to upload their creative content through the æternity digital graffiti æpp, leveraging blockchain’s core features of a public, decentralized, distributed record to archive indefinitely an artwork that would normally be local and temporary and make it accessible by a global audience.
Rhizomes
Freya Probst (DE/UK)
These grown gowns are the outcome of a series of experiments and playful interactions with plants and the observation of their roots through photography or time-lapse video. Experiments with pearls, small gears, or the positioning of seeds lead to different plant responses. The outcome was eventually applied to larger surface areas in the shape of cutting patterns reminiscent of fine woven textiles. The exhibits show a subterranean, hidden aesthetic of a natural structure that cannot be copied by humans.
Putting the Pieces Back Together Again
Ralf Baecker (DE)
The kinetic installation Putting the Pieces Back Together Again is a complex system with self-organizing and emergent behavior. It is also an artistic inquiry and meditation on contemporary scientific methodology. The installation investigates non-hierarchical communication and collective behavior by implementing such a system physically through many electro-mechanical actors.
(un)shaped
Takayuki Hirai (JP), Yasuaki Kakehi (JP)
This installation utilizes antibubbles in water as a medium. Through computationally controlled droplets, the antibubbles form various patterns on the water’s surface. Then they start to float in the water and disappear after a while. These periodic phenomena shows continuous morphing from computationally controlled forms to organic ones mediated by the environment.
Calle 22
Julius von Bismarck (DE)
Calle 22 is Julius von Bismarck's documentation of the street of the same name in Bogotá, Colombia. With a high-speed camera and a spotlight, he shoots over 2500 frames per second during a high-speed car along its south side at night. This takes him from the prosperous parts of town to its poor quarters, allowing him to present urban development in a very compressed space, and to reflect on the city’s political process by travellikng down a single road.
Into The Distance
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication, MA Interaction Design Communication (UK)
In dieser Ausstellung setzen wir uns für eine Zukunft ein, in der wir die Dinge anders und besser machen als in der Vergangenheit. Die Vergangenheit der „digitalen Revolution“ im Geiste von Hartleys Zitat zu sehen, bedeutet nicht, sie zu verleugnen; es ist eine Gelegenheit, eine neue Sichtweise von ihr zu entwickeln, eine Chance, über ihre Trends und gescheiterten Versprechen aus heutiger Perspektive zu reflektieren. Wir können unseren Blick weiter in die Ferne lenken, sowohl hinter als auch vor uns; um zu erforschen, wie ältere (oder antike) Ideen und Konzepte zu wirkmächtigen kritischen Werkzeugen werden können, um aktuelle und zukünftige Herausforderungen zu ergründen.
Rêverie Reset
Yan Lei (CN)
Rêverie Reset is a system that expands on Yan Lei's practice of dissolving images into concepts. The video-installation makes use of cutting-edge computational systems and networking technologies in order to reaffirm the artist's notion of the artificiality of representation and the irrelevance of the image.
æternity Crypto Foundation, Vaduz
Established in the Principality of Liechtenstein, the æternity crypto foundation aims to support an ever-evolving and thriving blockchain ecosystem. The foundation builds bridges between technology and society to foster the sustainable growth of extraordinary talents, world-changing ideas, and innovative projects.
