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COMMUNITY PARCOURS
On September 7 and 8, the Festival invites you to free guided tours in Bulgarian, Greek, Austrian Sign Language, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, Plain Language as well as inclusive courses.
Community Parcours: Bulgarian
This tour will take you through the POSTCITY free of charge in Bulgarian language.
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.
Cat: Collaborating with a Neural Network
Rachel Smith (UK)
Cat: Collaborating with a Neural Network is a conversation between Rachel Smith (human) and cifar10_cnn.py (artificial neural network). In order to communicate successfully, they must speak the same language. The method of communication is a human/machine compromise; a hand-painted grid of pixels.
Mutual Understanding
Thomas Grill (AT)
Two acoustic agents incarnated by large horn loudspeakers are incessantly exchanging acoustic codes. Based on models of human vocalization, they develop their vocabulary independently from a natural language. In their ongoing discourse, they follow a common goal: to optimize the beauty of their own vocal expression.
Bird Language
Helena Nikonole (RU)
This project explores the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in a bio-semiotics context: the artist uses machine learning to explore the sign systems of birds.
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.
