Useless Hands

FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Infratonal – Useless Hands – France

When our hands become useless, what will we choose to do with them? We can use AI to visualize the unthinkable, the strangely familiar yet indescribable forms and structures. Generative AI could be used as an amplifier of our ability to explore abstraction and surrealism rather than a simple mirror of our usual perceptions.

Bio

Infratonal is an artistic project led by Louk Amidou, a Paris-based multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of digital arts, electronic music and interaction design. He uses algorithms to create hybrid visual and sound pieces which aim to be performed by the human gesture as intangible instruments. He questions the artwork’s nature at the age of AI and the relationship between the artist and the algorithm.

愫君
Drawing Operations
Sougwen Chung is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist, who uses hand-draw and computer-generated marks to address the closeness between person-to-person and person-to- machine communication. She is a former researcher at MIT Media Lab and current Artist in Resident at Bell Labs and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Her speculative critical practice spans installation, sculpture, still image, drawing, and performance. Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1 is the 1st stage of an ongoing study of human and robotic interaction as an artistic collaboration.

Futuro Fragile
Con Fragile Future III, DRIFT fonde natura e tecnologia in una scultura di luce multidisciplinare. Il progetto è una visione critica ma utopica sul futuro del nostro pianeta, in cui due evoluzioni apparentemente opposte hanno stretto un patto per sopravvivere.

Pavilhão de pesquisa biônica
O Instituto de Design Computacional (ICD) e o Instituto de Estruturas de Edifícios e Design Estrutural (ITKE) da Universidade de Stuttgart construíram outro pavilhão de pesquisa biônica. O projeto faz parte de uma série bem-sucedida de pavilhões de pesquisa que mostram o potencial de novos processos de design, simulação e fabricação em arquitetura. O projeto foi planejado e construído em um ano e meio por alunos e pesquisadores de uma equipe multidisciplinar de arquitetos, engenheiros e biólogos. O foco do projeto é uma estratégia de design de baixo para cima  paralela para a investigação biomimética de cascas de compósitos de fibra natural e o desenvolvimento de novos métodos de fabricação robótica para estruturas de polímero reforçadas com fibra.

皮埃爾·於熱
ピエール·ユイグ
L’expédition scintillante, Act 2
artista multidisciplinar que juega con nuestra percepción del tiempo y de la realidad, a la vez que inventa nuevos modos y formatos de producción y exhibición de arte contemporáneo.

Disegni ad albero
Tim Knowles è un artista multidisciplinare britannico. Sebbene neghi di essere ossessionato dal vento, questo elemento ha ispirato molto il suo lavoro, gli piacciono le sue proprietà e la sua mancanza di controllo. Tree Drawing è un ottimo esempio del lavoro di Tim Knowles, appende dei pennarelli sui rami di un albero e aspetta che il disegno venga eseguito dal vento o dalla brezza sui rami. La cosa bella di questo lavoro è che puoi sentire le proprietà intrinseche dell’albero, che può essere flessibile, rigido, leggero, fragile.

The Collector
Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia and raised in Houston, Texas, Rachel Lee Hovnanian is a New York-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores contemporary notions of narcissism, obsession and intimacy, and society’s alienating addiction to modern technological advances and media.

于爾根·邁爾
يورغن ماير
위르겐 마이어
יורגן מאייר
ユルゲン・マイヤー
Юрген Майер
RAPPORT Structures spatiales expérimentales
MAYER H. Architects travaille sur les interfaces entre l’architecture, la conception de la communication et les nouvelles technologies. L’utilisation de médias interactifs et de matériaux réactifs joue un rôle central dans la production de l’espace. En équipes coopératives, des installations au design urbain en passant par les concours internationaux, une recherche spatiale multidisciplinaire sur la relation entre le corps, la nature et la technologie est développée et mise en œuvre

Asuna (android)
A- Lab, Tokyo
Luisa Whitton is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, text, and video. Guided by an interest in portraiture and technology, her practice involves extensive research into the power and implications of anthropomorphising technology and its precarious relationship to the uncanny.

على فوجيموتو
후지모토에
על פוג’ימוטו
НА ФУДЗИМОТО
Albero Bianco
è stato annunciato che sou fujimoto è stato scelto per costruire la seconda follia architettonica del 21 ° secolo a montpellier, in francia. il team multidisciplinare vincitore comprende anche gli studi francesi nicolas laisné associés (NL * A) e manal rachdi oxo architects. la torre a uso misto di 17 piani ospiterà unità residenziali, uffici, una galleria d’arte, un ristorante e un bar panoramico. uno sforzo interculturale, lo schema incarna la montpellier di oggi, con un’integrazione degli stili giapponese e mediterraneo. la struttura è strategicamente posizionata tra il centro cittadino ed i quartieri di recente sviluppo di port marianne e odysseum, a metà strada tra il vecchio e il nuovo quartiere della città. chiamata “albero bianco”, o “arbre blanc”, la struttura di 10.000 metri quadrati cresce organicamente dal terreno, con una forma naturale che sembra essere stata scolpita nel tempo. i vari rami dello schema forniscono anche aree d’ombra selezionate per le proprietà adiacenti. ciascuno dei residenti del grattacielo selezionerà una planimetria preferita da un elenco di possibili layout, incoraggiando l ‘”architettura a libera scelta” con una serie di spazi modulari. a dominare lo skyline, l’edificio presenta periferie dense ma permeabili dove le divisioni tra spazio interno ed esterno sono sfumate. influenzati dalla passione della città per la vita all’aria aperta, i balconi gravitano verso l’esterno, come foglie che si aprono a ventaglio per assorbire la luce solare. una generosa dotazione di vegetazione vede giardini pensili, piante e alberi posizionati in tutte le unità residenziali, immaginati come un giardino verticale. la torre elabora strategie passive in tutto il suo design di garantire un ambiente confortevole e vivibile che si nutre delle risorse disponibili a livello locale.

САША КУРМАЗ
Sasha Kurmaz é uma jovem artista multidisciplinar de Kiev, na Ucrânia. A artista mostra interesse principalmente no corpo humano e da vida privada, que ela retrata com absolutamente nenhum medo. O objetivo de Sasha é explorar a linha de estado do nu, entre o amor e sentimentos fortes. Nessa série fotográfica, a artista seleciona vários episódios de sua vida, objetos e eventos que lhe são importantes, transferindo sentimentos e senso de realidade.

Саша Курмаз
Sasha Kurmaz é uma jovem artista multidisciplinar de Kiev, na Ucrânia. A artista mostra interesse principalmente no corpo humano e da vida privada, que ela retrata com absolutamente nenhum medo. O objetivo de Sasha é explorar a linha de estado do nu, entre o amor e sentimentos fortes. Nessa série fotográfica, a artista seleciona vários episódios de sua vida, objetos e eventos que lhe são importantes, transferindo sentimentos e senso de realidade. Em suas fotografias, a artista da ênfase na combinação de sequências de alinhamento de imagens em um único stream conceitual em que cada foto é auto-suficiente, mas ao mesmo tempo, a continuação da anterior, e é parte de um todo.

dot matrix loop
Rowan Smith’s work takes the form of a multidisciplinary semiotic investigation into the ways in which cultural signs and signifiers can be read as artefacts. He examines how the meaning embedded in these artefacts fluctuates (and frequently deteriorates) in relation to ever-shifting sociopolitical contexts; often assuming a self-critical position which responds to his locality.

Matija Čop is a first-year graduate student of Fashion Design at the Faculty of Textile Design of the University in Zagreb. Before enrolling he studied Croatian Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy. With his mentor Jasminka Končić he is working on understanding fashion. In his work he speaks the language of fashion with a strong conceptual and multidisciplinary background. As he is still a student, his work up to now is occupied by the fashion object as the starting form of studying fashion garments.

Etnomats 001
Francisco Larios es un artista multidisciplinario (México, 1960) cuyo trabajo despuntó en la década de los noventa. Larios ha practicado la pintura, el dibujo de concepto abierto, el uso de “software” para crear entornos visuales bidimensionales y tridimensionales. En su imaginario se cumple la condición postmoderna, en la que la cultura contemporánea es el punto de arranque para la elaboración de escenas que manifiestan un retorno a referentes sacros, temáticas filosóficas y fabulaciones inmemoriales.

Multidisciplinary in his practice, Markus Schinwald alternately uses painting, video, photography, installation, performance, theater, dance and even the art of the puppeteer. From his training as a fashion designer, the artist has retained a keen interest in the human body, exploring its capabilities and limitations, both physically and psychologically.

wonderWALL
El estudio multidisciplinar LIKEarchitects ha construido wonderWALL, un escenario temporal para la instalación de almohadillas interactivas llamada The Pool, obra maestra de la artista estadounidense Jen Lewin y que ha recorrido el mundo con éxito. WonderWALL es un espacio expositivo diseñado para recibir la obra de Jen Lewin en Colombo Shopping Mall, en Lisboa, Portugal, construido con aproximadamente con 20.000 tiras de huinchas blancas y negras.

Clash Project
“We are I O I A. We are material designers & a multidisciplinary creative studio. Everything we create is bright, bold and playful.”

皮埃爾·於熱
ピエール·ユイグ
artista multidisciplinar que juega con nuestra percepción del tiempo y de la realidad, a la vez que inventa nuevos modos y formatos de producción y exhibición de arte contemporáneo.

皮埃爾·於熱
ピエール·ユイグ
artista multidisciplinar que juega con nuestra percepción del tiempo y de la realidad, a la vez que inventa nuevos modos y formatos de producción y exhibición de arte contemporáneo.

light drift
Höweler + Yoon Architecture / MY Studio is a multidisciplinary practice, operating in the space between architecture, art, and landscape. They believe in an embodied experience of architecture, seeing media as material and its effects as palpable elements of architectural speculation. While their work lies at the intersection of the conceptual and the corporeal, they are committed to both the practice-of and prospects-for architecture. Engaged in projects of all scales, they are interested in the material realities and material effects of their work. From concept to construct they are determined to realize the built idea and to test projects through the dynamic interaction between the construct and the larger public.

Requiem

In REQUIEM choreographer Nanine Linning imagines the tension between life and death, the profane and the sacred, the carnal and the spiritual. Themes, which are inextricably linked together and are at the same time absolute opposites. Inspired by Fauré’s “Requiem”, Dante’s “La Divina Commedia” and the absurd and surreal images of the artist duo “Les Deux Garçons”, Linning is searching for her own paradise on earth.REQUIEM is a multidisciplinary production with 25 dancers, live orchestra, two soloist singers, a choir, a sound artist and video. It is a triptych where the public will first walk on stage through dance installations; the dancers create a frozen, silent world.In the second part Fauré’s “Requiem” is being performed while singers and dancers follow Linnings choreography in a world of immense video images on stage. In the last part a Sound Artist will break apart Fauré’s “Requiem”. The frozen world of part one will melt and the energy of life will be released in a dynamic choreography for the choir and dancers.

the shape of sound

80 mesh – the shape of sound’ is a project that investigates fragmentation, reconstruction and repetition generated through the morphogenetic
possibilities of sound waves – visualized through the modeling of fine grain sand. the work was curated by ravenna-based cultural association
marte and born from a collaboration under the artists group CaCO3 – coordinated by daniele torcellini. the multidisciplinary artwork – informed by the research of the german physicist ernst chladni – is a device composed of three 50 x 50 cm metallic plates that are placed horizontally alongside each other, with a quantity of garnet sand (80 mesh references the particles size) homogeneously dispersed over the plates. the dishes were electrically linked to the sound waves produced by an onde martenot – an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 with a similar sound to a theremin – played by ratsimandresy.