Artificialism

AI_Absolution shows an AI-person-conversation in which viewers can influence the course by making their own decisions. These are made on behalf of the person and adopted in the conversation. The conversation is set in a future scenario where artificial intelligence optimizes people‘s lives and interacts with them on a daily basis for this purpose.

AINIMA is an exploration of human-AI interplay through a short film, dance and animation. It examines the balance of cooperation and competition, and the duality of fascination and apprehension towards artificial intelligence.

An Ode to a Fading City is an animation short film that follows a little mouse on a journey through the abandoned streets of a decaying city. The film was created through a collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence, where AI acted as a co-creator and took on a range of tasks.

The search for truth and knowledge is intrinsic to humankind. Theories, theses, reflections and refutations progress with us and are always somewhere a testimony of their time.

Our minds continuously generate an infinite stream of thoughts as we interact with the world around us. Every day we create approximately 60,000 of them, both conscious and unconscious. Even during moments of rest, our brains continue to stay engaged.

Sting says musicians face “a battle” to defend their work against the rise of songs written by artificial intelligence.“The building blocks of music belong to us, to human beings. That’s going to be a battle we all have to fight in the next couple of years: Defending our human capital against AI.”

The short film explores the complex themes of trans- and posthumanism, identity and the connection between consciousness and the fleshly body. The film is generated by various artificial intelligences from the creation process to the realisation. The use of this technology gives the film a unique atmosphere and contributes to the reflection on the subject…

The debate about the supposed objectivity of a photographic image is as old as documentary photography itself. But how to deal with this question if what is depicted did not exist in the first place? Three AI-generated photo reportages each focus on a fictional individual from different decades in Germany’s history.

In the Eye of Humans demonstrates that human perception is an essential part of artificial intelligence. The interactive installation shows the results of a generative AI, on the one hand as raw data, and on the other hand as visual data.

Truth often implies a sense of objectiveness despite its ability to be highly subjective. What an individual considers to be true is the result of a decision-making process involving societal context and personal experience.

Recording 377 is a dystopian short film set in the post-nuclear war era. The narrative revolves around a youthful filmmaker who finds herself irresistibly drawn into a mesmerizing cinematic journey.

The VR-Experience What happened at the Stonewall Inn? shows an important milestone in queer history: the Stonewall riots of 1969. The oppressed queer community of New York defended itself against police arbitrariness, abuse and violence.

Surveillance capitalism manipulates self-identity, limits data control, raises technology’s impact on self-identity and exemplifies the panopticon’s hypervigilance.

The interactive application was developed with the aim of providing inclusive access for blind and visually impaired people and was created in cooperation with the Museum of Musical Instruments (MiM) in Berlin.

The interactive VR experience The Vanish brings one of the most serious human diseases to life: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The Vanish is a 20-minute, immersive, narrative experience that ranges between a film and a game.

Refugees are greatly suffering due to the EU’s asylum policy. State reception centers are overcrowded and poorly maintained, forcing them to create their own shelters in old ruins. Although aid agencies provide basic necessities, refugees still face violent attacks and abuse while crossing the Bosnian-Croatian border.