Mutant Tales — Posterra

Fredo Agudelo

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – LED SHOW
Electronic Language International Festival

mutanttales — Posterra – Colombia

In the end, the organic will eat technological waste like fungi. What remains of humanity in this finale? What remains of Earth over human vanity? We are beings in an unconscious mix, sitting behind screens as if traveling in a spaceship in the void of the universe. The layers fall away, and our corporeal reality remains. Scan your consciousness and step out of your spaceship; in Posterna, there’s still a world to live in.

BIO

Colombian audiovisual artist based in São Paulo. He has experience with video mapping, working in Colombia on various projects and participating in several video mapping festivals in Brazil. He is currently working increasingly with sound to bring a live audiovisual exhibition to the audiovisual art scene, blending experimental sound with video projections.

ChromaPause

Jiatong Yao

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – CGI VIDEOS
Electronic Language International Festival

ChromaPause – China

ChromaPause is an experimental film that explores the relationship between urban life, posthuman identity, and the yearning for nature in a digitalized world. Futuristic flowers bloom in a surreal mesh, symbolizing the balance between the organic and the synthetic. Posthuman figures merge with the technological landscape, embodying the convergence of humanity and technology. The work invites pause and reflection in this pulsating universe.

BIO

Jiatong Yao connects art, technology, and culture, exploring XR, 3D, AI, and interactive computing. He reflects on the transformation of the modern self through technology, creating immersive experiences that intertwine humanity and the digital age. With a background in computer science and technical art, he develops innovative projects on the impacts of information on society. 

Leonardo Da Vinci Project: Neo-Renaissance

CRUDE_CASTIN

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – CGI VIDEOS
Electronic Language International Festival

Leonardo Da Vinci Project: Neo-Renaissance – China

Neo-Renaissance uses the protagonist and Leonardo da Vinci as clues to tell the story of people’s prosperous lives in the “cloud,” the emergence of a latent crisis, and the connection of digital subjects in the context of decentralization in the near future. The film makes extensive use of artificial intelligence-generated materials (AIGC), interweaving the Renaissance and Web 3.0 into a single narrative, aiming to reflect on the fading of popular power in the lower echelons of various social processes and on imaginations for the future.

BIO

CRUDE_CASTIN is a creative collective of young artists. Their focus is on revealing the hidden power structures behind technology and using diverse methods to explore the tension between technology and humanity. Their work combines art and technology, reflecting on the dilemmas of today’s technological society through themes such as technology and power, history, and nature.

Prometheus Bound
In Greek Mythology, Prometheus stole fire (technology) from Zeus and gave it to humans, and for this, he got crucified on a mountaintop, and had to endure the eternal pain as a punishment. Since the beginning of our civilization, technology has been the source of prosperity and development. But also it has been the cause of great tragedies such as war sand nuclear accidents. Setting the Aeschylus Greek tragedy “Prometheus Bound” as a starting point, Koizumi created VR (Virtual Reality) theater which deals with this age-old tension between humanity and technology, through collaboration with a person who is desperately longing for the technological advancement – a person who is suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis- the deadly neurological disease that make a person paralyzed). Through the dialogues with the man about his personal life and his visions of the future, they created a sci-fi vision in which past and future, self and others, humans and machines are all merged into one sequence of abstract VR theatrical experience.

Quantum Memories: Nature Studies
Technological and digital advancements of the past century could as well be defined by the humanity’s eagerness to make machines go to places that humans could not go, including the spaces inside our minds and the non-spaces of our un- or sub-conscious acts. These unique pieces of the “Quantum Memories” series exhibit arresting visuals and colors that speculate the probability of reaching invisible spaces. They are composed in collaboration with a generative algorithm enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, a new form of computing that exploits the unusual physics of the subatomic world. It turns the visual data that flows around us into an artwork that represents our collective and digitized memories of nature and encourages the viewer to imagine the potential of this computing technology for the future of art, design, and architecture.

Quantum memories
Quantum Memories is Refik Anadol Studio’s epic scale investigation of the intersection between Google AI Quantum Supremacy experiments, machine learning, and aesthetics of probability. Technological and digital advancements of the past century could as well be defined by the humanity’s eagerness to make machines go to places that humans could not go, including the spaces inside our minds and the non-spaces of our un- or sub-conscious acts. Quantum Memories utilizes the most cutting-edge, Google AI’s publicly available quantum computation research data and algorithms to explore the possibility of a parallel world by processing approximately 200 million nature and landscape images through artificial intelligence. These algorithms allow us to speculate alternative modalities inside the most sophisticated computer available, and create new quantum noise-generated datasets as building blocks of these modalities. The 3D visual piece is accompanied by an audio experience that is also based on quantum noise–generated data, offering an immersive experience that further challenges the notion of mutual exclusivity. The project is both inspired by and a speculation of the Many-Worlds Interpretation in quantum physics – a theory that holds that there are many parallel worlds that exist at the same space and time as our own.

reawaken
Reawaken is a kinetic sculpture with 55 robotic arms, powered by 55 servo motors. The lowering of the arms causes an abstract print on paper. Technology mirrors humanity, and vice versa. In addition to creating beauty, technology is there to meet our needs. We, and our needs, have evolved to a point where we are so integrated that we consume technology on autopilot. We live in a time of mass production in which our daily devices increasingly mimick each other. A smartphone is a small tablet, a tablet a small computer and a computer a small television. The question of what this does with our imagination, together with the increasingly invisible technological progress such as algorithms and artificial intelligence, have been my starting point for Reawaken.

Chiron
Les machines de Jonathan Sitthiphonh pourraient rappeler l’univers S.F. – les robots exosquelettes dans les films de James Cameron, notamment. Par leur archaïsme, elles pourraient aussi rappeler l’ingénierie léonardienne. Coincées entre le mythe d’Icare et le post-humain, elles matérialisent un rêve de dépassement des limites humaines. Mais sans l’exaucer… L’entreprise de l’artiste est ambitieuse, motivée.

(ego hiperrealista) + (juguete del viento) =
Custic combines models, costumes and various other objects that inspire him, using them to give form to abstract concepts surrounding humanity and its evolution. Spirituality, religion, relationships and sexuality are all explored through a lens preoccupied with fragmentation, pataphysics, optical balance effects and technological art.