Exhibitions, Projects
Trans*Plant: connecting with mycorrhiza intranet [edible version]
Q.R*3 – Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR) + Roger Rabbitch (ES) + Rebeca Paz (ES)
“2024. March 8. The annual resources of the Earth have been exhausted. The equivalent of 4 planets is needed to satisfy human consumption. From a VPN of a second Internet, a group of biohackers, Q.R*3, tries to connect with the mycorrhiza, a network composed of a symbiosis between roots and fungi through which the terrestrial plant world communicates. The first members of this group died immediately under the effect of an unknown molecule. Nothing is known about the rest of the group.”
I am {Emotion}
Manolis Perrakis (LE) in collaboration with Mathis Antony (CH)
The installation is comprised by a sun lounger bed that the audience can lie on, and receive real-time “psychological” advice. GPT2 in conjunction with tacotron2 and an emotion classification algorithm is used to extract the emotion from the participant’s face and vocalize it into an endless stream of artificial wisdom.
xDiversity Project
Yoichi Ochiai (JP), JST CREST xDiversity Project Colleagues (JP)
This project aims to explore AI-assisted human-machine integration techniques for overcoming impairments and disabilities. The final goal is a social design and deployment of the assistive technologies towards an inclusive society.
100 Jahre Bauhaus: We are not alone / Shared Habitats
We are not alone consoles and warns us: it promises an answer from the ecosphere – animals, plants, cosmos, which speak to us in an old-fashioned way – just as it reminds us that we still do not understand enough of this ecosphere, just as we overlook many other humans who do not live in our culture, our sphere of life, or our social class. And it reminds us that the world does not end with the Earth or even our own limited field of vision. At the same time, the title points out that our technologies are not passive tools that we use with our hands. Rather, they have mutated into co-creative teammates who make predictions, take decisions, and not only generate their own suggestions for action but also implement them. We are not alone! As artists and descendants of the Bauhaus, we recognize that our role is changing. We no longer believe in the heroic genius of the master who forms the world in a state of intuition. Embedding and feedback reveal that responsible action requires diverse cognitive variations that involve the counterpart in a performative way.
Found Sound Discovery
Robin Weijers (NL), Manolis Perrakis (EL)
Found Sound Discovery explores movement, time and sound. An installation that involves analogue and digital interactions with the world around us. Through sensors and found objects, mechanical and digital interactions create the possibility of discovered sound.
Species Reclamation Via a Non-linear Genetic Timeline: An Attempted Hymenochirus curtipes Model Induced by Controlled Breeding
Brandon Ballengèe (US)
This project involved the selective breeding of frogs from the Hymenochirus family, located in the Congo. There, biodiversity is threatened by forest clearing and increased demand for wood. Also, political turmoil in Congo has limited biological studies and conservation efforts. In their native habitat, wild Hymenochirus populations may currently be in decline or have become extinct.
Perception
Cheska Lotherington (UK)
Perception is an experimental light piece that interacts with audience members. A thin rim around the edge of the room on the floor will project the light strips’ color up onto the walls. Three cameras mounted to the ceiling will feed data to the light strips.
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer
Maja Smrekar (SI)
Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer is designed as an apocalypse survival kit. As a hybrid between a beehive and a Slovenian farm chest, it formally connects contemporary art with folklore.
Utopia
Joaquín Fargas (AR)
Artistic project with the mission to raise awareness about climate change, the melting of ice and the problem of water.
Spectacular Resonance
CCW, University of the Arts London
MA Fine Art Digital is a course that asks questions about what art is in a digital environment. Rather than focusing on specific technology, it allows students from incredibly diverse backgrounds to engage with significant issues through their art. BA Print & Time Based Media is a course that combines the traditional with the contemporary, bringing together print-making, photography, film, audio, writing, video and performance art. This exhibition is co-curated by artists and Program Directors Jonathan Kearney and Lois Rowe from UAL and will showcase work from areas they oversee.
