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Meanwhile In China
Yang Mu & Sai Bao – Matthias Schäfer (DE), Sofia Braga (IT)
Douyin 抖音, internationally known as TikTok, has become one of the world’s most successful apps and a leading platform for creating and sharing short videos. It was developed by Beijingbased Bytedance and is one of the few apps that has been successful outside the big firewall. To comply with Chinese law, Douyin is a completely independent app from TikTok. Although the user interface and logo look the same, the content is completely different and not accessible in the international version. The goal of this work is to explore and analyze this vast digital ecosystem from different perspectives: screenshots capture a moment in a rapidly changing environment, determined by Douyin’s artificially intelligent recommendation algorithm. These found images are then decontextualized without change to give visitors space and opportunity to think about them and gain insights into a delimited platform and its algorithms used to show you the most engaging content.
ARchaeologies
Pedro Soares (PT)
In Archaeologies, we’re faced with a sheet of paper in which an iconic picture from the past was engraved through folding. Observers may use the available materials to produce their own drawings while simultaneously revealing the hidden image. By observing the piece with an Augmented Reality app, we can see the strata that contain each individual citation made by the participants and how every new intervention is conditioned by the ones before it.
Stereospacer: Nature Space
Michael Markert (DE)
Explore how virtual insect and physical city sounds mix and discover how this experience changes the perception of the area outside the exhibition space.
Indonesia Kaya in Augmented Reality, My Identity in Augmented Reality
Budi Ubrux (ID)
Through this app, art lovers can witness the painting come alive, offering an interactive digital experience about what it may have been like to be in the scene during the 21st century as depicted in the painting. It featured newspaper-wrapped heads as a metaphor for image-making desires. Ubrux adapts symbolic language for a new generation: Digital Avatar.
Anschwellen - Abschwellen
Volkmar Klien (AT)
Fully erect, the clock dominates for a while and then subsides; its feathery crown sinking in front of it.
ForTunes
Florian Richling (AT)
ForTunes is an all-in-one insights app for a new generation of music creators.
Amadeus Code
Taishi Fukuyama (JP)
Amadeus Code is a songwriting assistant powered by artificial intelligence.
Swipe
Bérénice Serra (FR)
Swype is a virtual keyboard, developed for touchscreen smartphones and tablets, that allows the user to write by sliding his finger from the first to the last letter of a word. Using a predictive text system, this keyboard can achieve a writing speed of 50 words per minute. The Swipe project proposes a translation app that highlights a link between writing speed and the enrichment of language through graphic writing, by recording the signs generated with the Swype keyboard. Each word then produces a new sign.
