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Rêverie Reset
Yan Lei (CN)
Rêverie Reset is a system that expands on Yan Lei’s practice of dissolving images into concepts. A large-scale installation makes use of cutting-edge computational systems and networking technologies in order to reaffirm the artist’s notion of the artificiality of representation and the irrelevance of the image.
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.
Infinite Light Column
AROTIN & SERGHEI (AT/RO/DE/FR)
This project is reflecting our digital age, constantly creating floods of information and a confusing mass of images and automated processes of artificial intelligence.
LSF-500 – Project
Franz Fischnaller (IT)
Immersive digital exhibit showcasing Gigapixel images in 8K, up to 28350x40160 px, made of over fourteen of Leonardo da Vinci’s works comprising, among others: the universally renowned Portrait of an Old Man, the Head of a Young Woman, also known as the “Mona Lisa of drawings,” the notable Codex on the Flight of Birds, donated by Theodor Sabachnikov to King Humbert I in 1893, containing Leonardo’s drawings of flying machines and the Hidden Portrait, Leonardo da Vinci's alleged self-portrait discovered in the Codex on the Flight of Birds.
Peer
Liu Kexu (CN), Ye YiChen (CN), Zheng Jiang (CN), Dong Geng (CN), Wenjie Liang (CN)
Peer is a work based on exploration, which uses symbolic snooping movements to explore unusual images in the real world. By looking through a tubular structure, the undefined view causes people’s desire to snoop. The mechanical structure inside the black box rotates the screen to the corresponding location based on the visitor’s position. At the same time, the film images of the six pipelines share the same theme: the multifaceted nature of human beings in society.
Das Audiovisuelle Archiv / Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments
Volkmar Klien (AT), Snark.art (US)
Sounds and images; paired and archived. A reading apparatus.
Inter Faces
Régis Costa de Oliveira (BR)
The Inter Faces performance uses augmented reality to replace the performer's body – including self-portraits – with digital images framed on a screen. The performers will act in a space that fuses the real with the digital. Their actions will likewise occur by crossing in between these two worlds, exploring simulacra and making it evident it from digital contents that seemingly appeal to us, even as it also makes clear how such temptations can exert a narcoticizing, hallucinogenic effect on us.
Wiki-Piano.Net
Alexander Schubert (DE)
Wiki-Piano.Net is a composition for piano that can be co-designed by internet users. Everything that the community has made available on the website will be performed on stage. This can be not only music, but also texts, images, or other content. For the musical realization of this score, the performing pianist has piano, keyboard, and his own voice at his disposal. It is not possible to study and practice this composition in the classical sense, but it is not the masterpiece either that is in the foreground of this project. Rather, it is a matter of continuous observation and playful exploration of community behavior and internet use.
