POSTCITY

Deep Data Prototypes 1, 2 + 3

Andy Gracie (UK)

A real-time astrobiological experiment, a performative laboratory, where custom-built equipment operates according to data sourced throughout the solar system. Terrestrial organisms become our space explorers by proxy.

^lgorithmZoo Pt. 5. : KTV Session

Rico Graupner (DE)

^lgorithm Zoo pt. 5 "KtV Sessions Vol II. is a concert series that deals with the sonic fusion of different biological habitats. In this case, a beetle-controlled synthesizer interacts with the sound installation ZoomBx. The movement events of the insects are tracked by a specially developed software (IcCE) that makes it possible to map the acquired data to musical parameters as well as different positions in space.

Simulation

Jörg Brinkmann (DE)

The sound of a voice from a YouTube clip is analyzed with custom software and translated into servomotor movements. The mouth moves in synch with the video’s voice, which is realized with a bulldog clip that is attached to the lower lip. In the original video clip, a controversial and much-discussed shaman known as Little Grandmother delivers a monologue about religion, ego, and love reminiscent of a mantra.

Inter Faces

Régis Costa de Oliveira (BR)

The Inter Faces performance uses augmented reality to replace the performer's body – including self-portraits – with digital images framed on a screen. The performers will act in a space that fuses the real with the digital. Their actions will likewise occur by crossing in between these two worlds, exploring simulacra and making it evident it from digital contents that seemingly appeal to us, even as it also makes clear how such temptations can exert a narcoticizing, hallucinogenic effect on us.

Deep Angel – Shadows Left Behind

Manuel Cebrian (ES), Zivvy Epstein (US), Joyce Feng (US), Matt Groh (US), Nick Obradovich (US), Iyad Rahwan (SY)

The Shadows Left Behind is a collection of photographs transformed by artificial intelligence to digitally invert permanence and ephemerality. Appealing to the aesthetics of absence, this collection reveals what is disappearing around us, spurs reflection on what we will soon miss, and declutters our thoughts to reawaken imagination and agency.

CRYPTID

Michael Candy (AU)

A monumental robotic light sculpture, CRYPTID exists as a vibrant anomaly in contrast to contemporary automata, sharing a presence both radiant and reserved.

Co-Thinking the Renewal of Fashion

FRI 6.9. | 13:30 – 15:00 In this panel, artists and scientists involved in the Re-FREAM project will share their perspectives on future developments in the fashion industry, talking about responsive fashion, future materials and the fashion production system.

Reset the Forest

Clara Molinicos (ES)

Reset the Forest: Interactive Reforestation Device is a project developed from an ecomedia perspective. Its main objective is to promote awareness of forest fires through a device equipped with an interactive graphic interface. The installation shows the aerial view of a burned space, which is displayed on a horizontal screen covered with a transparent fertile substrate.

EXILE, Vienna

EXILE is a platform for contemporary art founded in 2008 by Christian Siekmeier. EXILE understands art as a collaborative, inter-generational and overarching discourse embedded in a complex web of socio-political, gender and personal histories as much as in aesthetic theory and conceptual practice.

Sonicaedro

Poli Mujica (CL)

Sonicaedro is an installation of an Interactive Interface (HCI) within a dark and closed space. Through the tactile interaction with a dodecahedron of iridescent methacrylate, the user is able to generate a series of visual as well as sound responses in the environment. The videos projected in the room revolve around themes of sacred geometry in nature.