Algorithms

Rake - minimize your information
Tessa Aichelburg, Luis Hofmeister, Lukas Kaufmann, Paul Schreiber (AT)

In this project, every piece of information is analyzed by an algorithm and sorted according to its relevance for the average reader. The most superfluous messages are weeded out, printed out, and then shredded.
Facebook Algorithmic Factory
Vladan Joler (RS)

Facebook Algorithmic Factory sheds light on the invisible processes that take place inside the world’s largest social network. Inside this black box, non-transparent algorithms are deciding what kind of content will become a part of our reality, what will be censored or deleted, which ideas will spread and what news will gain most visibility. They are also defining new forms of labour and exploitation.
Math is the New Latin
Tomáš Staudek (CZ)

Algorithms in art are no longer mere visualization tools, but rather creative partners with a considerable share of aesthetic responsibility. The universal language of algorithms is math. Students of the subject put hands-on principles of mathematics in art, get acquainted with more than 50 creative software tools (visual grammars, fractals, chaos, tessellations, etc.) and learn how to understand and critically reflect on calculated creativity.
Facebook Algorithmic Factory
Vladan Joler (RS)

Facebook Algorithmic Factory sheds light on the invisible processes that take place inside the world’s largest social network. Inside this black box, non-transparent algorithms are deciding what kind of content will become a part of our reality, what will be censored or deleted, which ideas will spread and what news will gain most visibility. They are also defining new forms of labour and exploitation.
RASA-BOX
Iris Long (CN), Deng Hanbin (CN), Wu Tiancheng (CN)

Rasa is a “mirror” – it evaluates your “emotional state” in real-time based on your gestures. The project explores the limits of the comfort zone of the “privacy of one’s own feelings.” A camera and the algorithms will detect in real-time the skeleton data of the viewers and deduce their emotional state in order to write a sentence that falls in the same emotion category.
Anschwellen - Abschwellen
Volkmar Klien (AT)

Fully erect, the clock dominates for a while and then subsides; its feathery crown sinking in front of it.
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Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)

Unexpected and uncontrollable analogue signals are altered and bent by the artist to create an audio/video noise-scape. Pre-recorded (installation) or live audio signals, audible through speakers, are sent directly to CRT monitors mounted on the speakers, visualizing the signal in flickering and abstract shapes and lines in black and white to create a time-based sculpture.
Umbilical Digital
Dmitry Morozov / ::vtol:: (RU)

Umbilical Digital is kind of a farm where a special algorithm devotes itself to raising “digital living creatures” such as Tamagotchis. The system monitors their condition and takes on all tasks that are required for maintaining their “life” and keeping their “spirits” up. The simulation of pressing keys makes the system seem like a person who is taking care of the digital creature: it exists as if it has been “raised” by a human hand.