conflict

In Reactio Veritas

Felix Strobl, Barbara Gregori, Claudio Reiter (AT)

In Reactio Veritas is set to challenge the concept of confrontation by generating algorithmic works of art through electro-encephalography, which does not merely analyze the dispute, but should inspire us to see the beauty and communality behind the conflict.

Kunst und Überleben

Zoe Borzi, Johannes Fischer, Nicolas Glockner-Losch, Nikolaus Heckel, Jonathan Steininger, Raphael Wohlgemuth (AT)

The documentary film Kunst & Überleben (“Art and Survival”) portrays four people who have made art the primary focus of their lives.

VFRAME: Visual Forensics and Metadata Extraction

Adam Harvey (US), Josh Labouve (US)

In conflict zones around the world, serious human rights violations repeatedly occur through the use of illegal munitions. VFRAME shows how surveillance technologies can be used to document such violations – for example in the Syrian conflict. A visual search engine was trained to analyze video data sets from battle zones to spot such weapons. In order to train the neural network of the search engine to recognize them even in low-resolution recordings, 3D models were created and fed into the object detection software.