Linz

LAÑILAWAL

Universidad Austral de Chile (CL)

The oldest living tree on Earth could be the Lañilawal tree in southern Chile. The Alerce Milenario remains in the mode of a deferred time removed from the time scale of humans. How to show the pulse of this life? Bringing together a group of artists and scientists, the Lañilawal project is an approach to get a glimpse of this living time capsule with the purpose of understanding its message.

Vasulka Live Archive: Videomapping

Jana Horáková (CZ), Jiří Mucha (CZ), Tomáš Carda (CZ), Pavel Sikora (CZ), Štěpán Miklánek (CZ), Roman Ševčík (CZ)

The large-format projection on the facade of the Brno House of Arts took place on December 20th, 2021, on the second anniversary of Woody Vasulka's passing. The projected audiovisual remix was created from fragments of videos by Steina and Woody Vasulka, which were interwoven with visualizations of the pseudo-cognitive processes of artificial neural networks.

Vasulka Live Archive: Machine Dreaming

Pavel Sikora (CZ), Štěpán Miklánek (CZ), Lucid library

The video loop presents the outputs of the pseudo-cognitive processes that take place in the lower layers of the artificial neural network model during the analyses of the content of the Vasulkas’ video archive. These visualizations were created as a by-product of the process of production of the neural network classification model.

Vasulka Live Archive: The Immersive Virtual Reality

Chamit Abdulvaliyev (KZ/CZ), Pavel Sikora (CZ)

This is an Android app that has been programmed in the Unity game engine. It uses stored information from the outputs of neural network models developed in the Vasulka Live Archive project and places previews of Vasulkas’ videos in a virtual 3D space. Virtual reality visitors can move around the space, trigger, and rearrange the videos.

Vasulka Live Archive: The intelligent epistemological tool

Jana Horáková (CZ), Jiří Schimmel (CZ), Štěpán Miklánek (CZ), Pavel Sikora (CZ), Dušan Barok (SK/NO)

The Vasulka Live Archive website is an intelligent interface to the content of the Steina and Woody Vasulka archive. It consists of two interfaces called Machine Vision and Machine Learning. While playing a selected work, users can see a graphical representation of the occurrence of the audio and video objects identified by the artificial neural networks on the timeline with an accuracy of one second.

The Planet of Expanded Visions

Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts (CZ); Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication (CZ)

Welcome to the planet made of expanded visions of the Vasulkas — the pioneers of electronic art. Enter the world of augmented memories of their visionary models of the expanded man-machine nature systems of the possible futures.

Coventry: Self-Archive

Joshua Bright (UK)

This individual project explores a process of archiving the ruins of the city in an infinite digital space, documented from the fragments that have remained over different periods of the city.

Collaborative Concrete with Gareth Proskourine-Barnett

Agnieszka Michalska (PL), Chen Liu (CN), Rowan Powell (UK), Kieron Sylvester (UK), Victoria Miller (UK)

Starting with digitized ruins of the Birmingham Central Library and the utopian ambition of Brutalist Architecture, Collaborative Concrete investigates the potential of the material as a digital .obj file — to be manipulated and reformed, providing a space to experiment, think and play.

Elephant; a Translation of Collective Identity

78 Studio: Adam Nuttall (UK), Louis Stephenson (UK), William Weston (UK)

As a studio, we question the usefulness of this shifting landscape to the people that inhabit it, in order to develop a place in which memories provide a sentimental backdrop to the lived experience. machine will facilitate connections with the city through active recording, archiving and reconfiguration of a ballroom, a fire-bombed pub, a rave venue, all with an innate relationship with the urban sound.

PIXel Operation{s}

Alessandro Columbano (IT)

Instruments of pixel manipulation construct these faultless fictions, a technique which is also applicable in the process of image making or architectural storytelling. This performative lecture questions the significance of relocating pixels beyond reality, and the reading of urban identity presented to us from these operations.