Parallels (Linz)

Parallels / Marc Da Costa, Matthew Niederhauser - Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou

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Parallels (Linz)

Marc Da Costa (US/PT), Matthew Niederhauser (US)

Parallels (Linz) is a site-specific, responsive machine learning installation that transforms an LED wall into a portal for viewers to encounter the world and themselves through the lens of a neural network.
Each moment, a camera behind the wall takes a photograph of the ambient environment which is then reinterpreted and presented on the screen. As an interactive sculpture, Parallels (Linz) seeks to embed emerging machine vision technologies directly within the landscape and built environment, questioning how new forms of artificial knowledge can be placed within a longue durée of human sense-making practices. The installation thus draws the sphere of machine vision into conversation with the surrounding architecture and the historical embeddedness of the viewer, providing an occasion to meditate on a moment when ways of seeing are being reconfigured.

Hauptplatz 1-5

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  • Photo: Lauren Duque

    Marc Da Costa

    Marc Da Costa is an artist whose work spans multimedia installations, experimental documentaries, engineering, and anthropological research. His practice investigates the interplay between archives, technology, and lived experience, examining how technical infrastructures shape our attention and sense of the world. His work has been exhibited widely in the US and Europe and his writing on the intersection of data and society has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

  • Photo: Matthew Niederhauser

    Matthew Niederhauser

    Matthew Niederhauser is an artist and educator. His work pushes the limits of emerging technologies within a wide range of mediums, exploring concepts that blur the digital and physical through interactive experiences and dynamic immersive storytelling. His background in anthropology and photography first led to contributions to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times along with stints as a Pulitzer Center Grantee and Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology.

Credits

Parallels was first commissioned through Onassis ONX for Plásmata II: Ioannina. Developed and presented in the context of ACuTe. ACuTe is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.