STUDIOTOPIA

Curator Journey in STUDIO(dys)TOPIA

Martin Honzik (AT), Christl Baur (DE/AT)

What new economic and ecological values should we embrace and how do we make them an integral part of our cultural identity?

The NeuroRight Arcades

Roel Heremans and his team are designing a series of five interactive installations to make each NeuroRight tangible for participants. They want participants to explore unasked questions about the future of our NeuroRights in a world where BCIs are ubiquitous.

A Letter from Yene

Manthia Diawara (Mali, USA)

Manthia Diawara’s latest film, A Letter from Yene, emerges from conversations with fishermen, pebble collectors and himself in the seaside town of Yene. Diawara explores how their intersecting lives collectively and unknowingly contribute to the undermining of their shared environment.

INVISIBLE SEAM

Siobhán McDonald (IE)

Siobhán McDonald examines the particles floating in the air and matter buried underground from past worlds. In an exploration of Arctic permafrost and plants preserved in this depository, the project traces histories of generations of underground systems.

μ

Christian Skjødt Hasselstrøm (DK)

Die Installation µ fungiert als kosmische Live-Lauschstation, die dazu einlädt, ein Gitter aus 49 Teilchendetektoren zu betreten und die (ständige) Anwesenheit von Myonen, die Teil der kosmischen Strahlung sind, die weit unter die Erdoberfläche reicht, akustisch zu erleben.

!brute_force - Soft Resilience

Maja Smrekar (SI), Jonas Jørgensen (DK)

Living beings leak out of their skin into biomorphic technology, forming an emergent posthuman landscape of bodies without organs beyond deterministic restrictions of the Cartesian grid.

Marine Caves and Benthic Terrazzo

Hypercomf (GR), Markos Digenis (GR)

What links can be presently found between marine caves and the human home? How much more intimate will these links become in a future world, where rising sea levels have swallowed the coastal mega cities and turned our terrestrial homes into marine caves? Will they be filled with the unique biodiversity that marine caves can host and littered with the scattered memories of our past presence? Artists Hypercomf with Markos Digenis and fellow marine biologists from HCMR investigate these questions.

LightSense

Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ), Tharindu Kaluarachchi (LK), Amit Barde (IN)

LightSense combines kinetic construction with 3D holographic animations. An integrated neural network allows the structure to engage in an oral conversation with the visitor while immersing the audience in Pavilions of Love, Anger, Curiosity and Joy.

The Data Nutrition Project

Kasia Chmielinski (US), Sarah Newman (US), Matthew Taylor (US) & Team

Like a nutrition label for food, the Dataset Nutrition Label conveys information about a dataset and can help mitigate harm caused by problematic data used by AI systems.

Carbon Echoes

Kat Austen (UK/DE)

Entanglement with carbon is an essential component of the extreme influence of humans on the planet. This trilogy interrogates carbon and the impact of humans on its distribution around the planet and through time. These positions reflect not only on the climate crisis but also quality of life for humans and for the plants, animals and ecosystems with which humans share the planet.