P E R I C A R D I U M
(2023)
author(s): Sara Key, Max Landergård, Susana Santa-Marta
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
A COLLAB work about the current position of mankind where we are at in the NOW - a comment on that and an exploration of the automatization and the relationship between the human essence and the artificial.
Skin is the membrane that divides inside from outside, what is important and not, what is alive and not. Skin represents the human and at the same time the contrahent to the artificial.
We live in a time where everyone is trying to tell us which world will be the best for us to live in. We want you to tell you.
FanFutures
(2019)
author(s): Kate McCallum, Kate Monson, Majed Al-Jefri
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
"FanFutures" is a project working with artificial (AI) automatic text generation in an exploration of fan fiction and speculation about possible futures. It is a collaboration between an artist, a computer scientist, and a social scientist — and, in an extended sense, also with the fan fiction community and an AI algorithm.
Using a data-set of short sci-fi-esque stories written by anonymous members of the fan fiction community, we taught a natural language processing program to produce its own, entirely new short sci-fi-esque stories. The program takes imagined futures written by amateur writers, rather than institutionally-sanctioned voices, and dreams algorithmically through those voices to produce its own re-imaginings of possible futures.
We then turned these stories into films, films that depict a computer’s dreams of the future drawn from a mass of unknown voices, using imagery selected by another algorithm. The outputs are feverish and confused, but, as with human dreams, we have embraced their incoherence, and allowed imagery and atmosphere to come to the fore.
The project is inspired by our collective interest in understanding how humans make meaning with and through others — and how others make meaning with and through us. In a moment when our rapidly changing world, with its mass communication, new technologies and changing environment, seems almost intractable, we take a creative and playful approach to representing this complex intra-acting assemblage of human and more-than-human elements, and the possibilities in our world through sensory experience.
Passions of Utopia
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Johannes Rydinger, Nicia Ivonne Fernandez Grijalva, Yasmin Henra van Dorp
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The Passions of Utopia is a collaborative artistic research project exploring futuremaking and storytelling through the lens of a 360-camera and telenovela tropes.
By using the cynical, plastical and exaggerated form of the telenovela we are trying to explore themes such as future, desire and truth.
Part of the process led to a 20 minutes VR-experience where the audience can take part in a immersive telenovela. It was also showed at ETC Solpark as a part of the interdisciplinary exposition and publication Awesome Arrarat
Throguh a web of different methods, where classic film production work flows and 360-action camera filmmaking is weaved together with site specific installations, we also want to explore narratives that contribute to fiction storytelling through VR in a playful way
The team consists of Yasmin Van Dorp, Nicia Fernández and Johannes Rydinger, students at the masterprogram The Art of Impact at Stockholm University of the Arts
INERTIA, SPEED AND FUTURE: an artistic research on the unknown, from military disruptions to astronomy predictions
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Laetitia Catherine Morais
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The aim of this PhD is to provide an artistic research about unknown territories; pristine, fictitious, distant and immeasurable fields; to find clues or directions to reach them and to make use of the gained knowledge (Erkenntnis) for art practices.
It presents diversified approaches to questions as follows: which are the next boundaries of Art? What are the most advanced methods to move in an unknown field? How long-range observations provide closer approaches? How may advancements in perception inflect new imageries? What is the role of fiction in the development of a future? These main questions may elicit the paradigms of artistic research, once they directly relate with the production of new knowledge throughout artistic conceptualization. These questions invite to a reflection upon the future and how fiction may be introduced to scientific knowledge, in order to maintain an open perception of reality.
Therefore, fFor this analysis, I will focus on the introduction of methodologies - sometimes external to the field of art – such as military and astronomic observations of its surroundings. The military area is pointed out here by its cutting edge approach concerning surveillance, by making the invisible visible and vice-versa, through camouflage and landscape reconnaissance. The astronomic field is also brought to this research by its unstable nature, collapsing time and space, that is, studying data from the past until the present, with the aim to uncover a possible future. The materials used for their observations such as lens, absorbing and reflective surfaces, evoke an imagery (either by literature, music, comics and cinema) related to science-fiction, but they are, nonetheless, the most effective equipment for the observation of far away objects…
Both areas promote incursions into the unknown, throughout practices, techniques and tools that frequently combine two crucial factors: inertia and speed. It is departing from these main concepts that I raise questions around new aesthetics of the future, analyzing military and astronomic techniques used to disrupt or improve perception, and how these have been intercepting with art as a visionary mean. In this sense, I wish to contribute for a broadening conception of the unknown.
Therefore, this project is a gathering of information from different sources of knowledge, a study on space and time, a relocation of imageries – making (thinking and doing) – aesthetics. It is also a key for an artistic discourse capable to dialogue without constraints, combining conceptual objections with experimental practice, applied in diversified fields.
A COLLAB work about the current position of mankind where we are at in the NOW - a comment on that and an exploration of the automatization and the relationship between the human essence and the artificial. Skin is the membrane that divides inside from outside, what is important and not, what is alive and not. Skin represents the human and at the same time the contrahent to the artificial. We live in a time where everyone is trying to tell us which world will be the best for us to live in. We want you to tell you.open exposition comments (0)