bodies-myths

Endless Chapter

Lin Chen (CN)

Endless Chapter is a sound installation that shows how rape has become a tool in Africa, a weapon of war directly linked to the exploitation of minerals. Yet our insatiable demand for electronics such as mobile phones and laptops increases the incidence of sexual violence.

2084

Shuo Wang (CN)

2084 is a dystopian interactive fiction inspired by George Orwell’s 1984. The topic of the project is that when human memory and consciousness can be transformed into data storage, those who own these data will have the right to modify the personality and memory of digital humans, and even modify history.

Logging Off

Elliott Hall (UK)

Logging Off is an interactive installation, which through the medium of a chatbot confronts the audience with their own mortality, encouraging conversation and acceptance of our death anxieties. The mid-2000s desktop aesthetic aims to create a sense of familiarity and comfort throughout the experience.

Artificial Life: One Leg at a Time

Yue Haung (CN)

Artificial life: One Leg at a Time is a multi-channel screen installation that exposes the often-hidden workings and funny moments of supposedly successful AI-based Unity ML-agent. The clumsy and amusing training process shows the fragility and the immense amount of slow and ponderous computation behind successful AI.

Fragments of Uncertainty

Yulia Babanova (RU)

Fragments of Uncertainty is a video art piece exploring the existential yearning for certainty and predictability in an increasingly volatile and fragile world.

Future Web

Wen Li (CN)

Future Web is an interactive VR film that imagines a future virtual community built on blockchain, crypto currency, and non-fungible tokens that ushered the era of Web 3. The video tries to ask following questions: Can the technologies that underpin Web 3 guarantee a decentralized virtual world?

A.V.A. Investigation

Dalida Raad (LB)

A.V.A Investigation is a neo-noir narrative game about AI bias in policing and judicial systems. The objective is to solve the murder and issue a correct arrest warrant.

AI helps you stop slacking off

Kaixiang Yang (CN)

This is an interactive installation. It is a surveillance system with AI. The aim of the work is to create an AI model that can monitor employees and push them to work hard and not slack off. By allowing the audience to participate in the training process, they jointly decide how rigorous the final AI model will be.

Where are you From

Adnan Naqvi (UK)

Where Are You From is a desktop performance that aims to investigate the destruction and reconstruction embedded within the latent space of experience that surrounds borders, citizenship, and migration in contemporary Britain.

Petro-Culture Pipeline

Qing Qin (CN)

Through fieldwork, data collection, chemical experiments and real-time image generation, the project exposes how oil, as a raw material, is involved and hidden in our history, culture, and everyday life.