Exhibitions, Projects
Sas (Social Adaptation System)
Lorène Ceccon (FR)
Today, good mood is the sine qua non condition of the terrifying “soul of the company,” and inconsistency of mood is deemed unacceptable. Starting from the digital shift of the French Labor Agency, Sas is an extravagant AI which establishes an impossible dialogue with the spectator. It underlines the absurdity of automation and the normalization of our feelings, but also our confidence in a computer system that does not know what it is calculating.
Long Night Talks. For Robert Adrian
Roberto Paci Dalò (IT)
Long Night Talks. For Robert Adrian is an 8-channel sound work dedicated to Robert Adrian X (1935-2015), a pioneer in art and telecommunications. For more than two decades, Adrian and Paci Dalò shared a close friendship, punctuated by long night talks on everything. In this piece, Roberto Paci Dalò worked with Adrian's voice, using it as his installation’s main material.
Platforms of Differential Growth
Studio Architecture III (CZ)
Design based on the algorithmic evolution of geometries represents machine production without need for human intervention. Such systems are capable of self-reproduction and self-reparation. The exhibited concrete elements are cut-outs of an endless structure.
Ether
Alain Barthélémy (FR)
Ether is a video presenting a technical device producing the 27 bones of the right hand. This 3D animation, which resembles a didactic document, seems to be promoting an innovative technology. There is certainly a rapprochement here with vanity. However, if the classic subject of art history is intended to present the irony of human existence trapped in a putrescible body, the vanity here would be that of a cyborg, a being who seems to be able to escape the ravages of time.
Sounds of the Earth
Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia
Examination of two different media with two different approaches by two students of the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art. Experimental videos exploring the fascinating world of hidden sounds and hidden visual elements such as video compression. And a comics wall inspired by mythology juxtaposed with contemporary CGI technologies.
De toujours tu seras l'antépénultième peril
Kévin Ardito (FR)
This sculptural and musical installation diffuses cover versions of Billy Joel’s song Honesty. It uses digital and robotic media to question our relationship with transparency and lies in an entertaining and mischievous way: skull-shaped robots singing a song about honesty. The recorded voices lend some warmth to the robotic coldness of the artwork by adding an organic element to the robots, blurring assessments of identity or the reasons for their presence. The background simulates an Aurora Borealis, which is reflected on the skulls and the surrounding environment.
Ultimate Cavefighter in outer space: SC Deluxe Multiplayer Edition
Damien Baïs (FR), Thomas Barbé (FR)
The final assault has begun! In the bowels of a dark planet, you have to destroy the ultimate evil. But to succeed in your quest, you need to develop collective strategies to defeat opponents. Cavefighter is inspired by the “fixed shooter” video games of the 80’s. To enter the game, the player must connect to the “Cavefighter” WIFI network and download the Cavefighter application (Android only) that serves as a joystick.
Buildings without People
Studio Architecture III (CZ)
Buildings without people are already an integral part of our cities, though often not architecturally integrated to them yet. These projects replace five iconic 20th-century buildings with 21st century typologies such as data centers or logistics hubs inside of which humans are unwelcome or, at best, inconvenient guests
Modell 5
Granular Synthesis – Kurt Hentschlaeger (AT), Ulf Langheinrich (DE)
MODELL 5 is a performance or installation in which the face of Japanese performer Akemi Takeya is subject to drastic time-based interventions that create in essence a cyborg-like hybrid, between human and machine. A roller coaster dramaturgy following the “life” of the four clones on screens.
Klangmikado
Waltraut Cooper (AT)
Klangmikado, which was created for Ars Electronica in 1987, allows visitors to play with oversized mikado sticks and create individual sound worlds. The composition is by Gerhard E. Winkler.
