European Union
Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you
Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR)
March 2016: Start of Trans*Plant project, which engages in human>plant hybridizations. December 2017: First chlorophyll IV injection @ Kapelica Gallery. March 2036: The annual Earth resources are exhausted > global Internet final shutdown. December 2037: A bio-hacker community connects a VPN to Mycorrhiza network. This mixed-media installation aims to present the work behind Trans*Plant, as well as produce a speculative fiction. A piece where leftovers from the past and the future get entangled.
European ARTificial Intelligence Lab
The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab will be bringing AI related scientific and technological topics to general citizens and art audiences in order to contribute to a critical and reflective society. The project will be focusing on aspects beyond the technological and economic horizon to scrutinize cultural, psychological, philosophical and spiritual aspects.
EMAP/EMARE (European Media Art Platform)
The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) annually awards production grants to outstanding European media artists and supports research, production, presentation and distribution of media art in Europe and beyond, aiming to enable European artists to collaborate on projects and create closer bonds.
The Hidden Life of an Amazon User
Joana Moll (ES)
“The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success of Jeff Bezos” was purchased at Amazon on June 17, 2019. In order to purchase the book, the customer was forced to go through 12 different interfaces made of large amounts of code, adding up to 87.33Mb of data. The piece narrates the journey within the labyrinth of interfaces and code that allowed them to buy the book, while revealing the mounting energy costs unwittingly paid for by the Amazon customer.
The Eye of the Other
MAEID – Daniela Mitterberger (AT), Tiziano Derme (IT/AT)
The Eye of the Other delves into non-verbal communication between humans and bats, through the study, translation and manipulation of the bat’s echolocation. This multimodal immersive artwork derives from the desire to transcend the limitation of our living experience by exploring the deeper meaning of mutualistic relationships and interspecies communication between humans and animals, juxtaposing the animals’ gaze and the human gaze.
Speculative Artificial Intelligence
Birk Schmithüsen (DE)
The work consists of a series of aesthetic experiments designed to make processes of artificial neural networks perceptible to humans through audiovisual translation. Exp. # 1 examines inner behavior during the prediction and learning process. Exp. # 2 questions an AI’s capacity for empathy and purpose while communicating with a second AI.
Online Culture Wars
DISNOVATION.ORG (FR/PL)
Taking the Political Compass as a framework, this cartography offers a symbolic representation of online ideological and political debates, and their growing polarization, politicization and radicalization orchestrated by different political and cultural influencers in recent years.
