QUBIT AI: Kelly Luck
Kelly Luck
Strangeland 1 (excerpt)
FILE 2024 | Aesthetic Synthetics
International Electronic Language Festival
Kelly Luck – Strangeland 1 (excerpt) – United States
From a surrealist point of view, the main attraction of generative AI, for the artist, is its lack of memory. At any given moment, she only has the current frame and instructions on how to proceed, similar to free association in dreams. This work is part of a series of long-term environments designed to immerse the viewer in a constantly evolving and never-ending landscape, inviting relaxation and engagement.
Bio
As part of the first generation to grow up around computers, Kelly Luck quickly became fascinated with the creative possibilities of this new technology. Her journey has ranged from pixel art and graphic ‘hacks’ to the 90s demoscene, 2D and later 3D graphics, and now the modern tools of digital art. With the emergence of generative AI, it endlessly explores how technology continues to blur the line between imagination and reality.
ALAIN FLEISCHER
Le dos de la cuillere
Greg Dunn and Brian Edward
Self-Reflected
Dr. Greg Dunn (artist and neuroscientist) and Dr. Brian Edwards (artist and applied physicist) created Self Reflected to elucidate the nature of human consciousness, bridging the connection between the mysterious three pound macroscopic brain and the microscopic behavior of neurons. Self Reflected offers an unprecedented insight of the brain into itself, revealing through a technique called reflective microetching the enormous scope of beautiful and delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we observe this work of art. Self Reflected was created to remind us that the most marvelous machine in the known universe is at the core of our being and is the root of our shared humanity.
VIKTOR FRETYÁN
rue de seine 3D
PHILLIP TOLEDANO
فيليب توليدانو
菲利普托莱达诺
פיליפ טולדנו
フィリップ·トレダノ
Филипп Толедано
Phillip Toledano nasceu em Londres, filho de um americano e de uma franco-marroquina e começou a tirar as primeiras fotografias quando tinha 11 anos. Phillip Toledano acredita que todos os fotógrafos devem começar a trabalhar com uma ideia. Por outro lado, qualquer que seja a imagem, esta deve deixar algumas questões por responder. A genialidade da sua obra, extrema e estranha, confirma a sua teoria.
LIZ LARNER
Corridor Red/Green
Liz Larner Non voglio davvero guidare l’interpretazione delle persone del lavoro, ma posso farti sapere cosa ne penso. I problemi legati alla fotografia nel periodo in cui ero alla Cal Arts nei primi anni ’80 mi hanno spinto a voler affrontare il nostro mondo spazialmente e materialmente, ma non come architetto. La scultura affronta molti degli stessi problemi dell’architettura, ma per ragioni diverse. Per me è un mezzo che può affrontare il modo in cui viene prodotto il nostro mondo e i fattori che lo compongono. Per questo motivo, sento che c’è una potenziale poetica nella scultura che è strettamente connessa al nostro mondo come contesto in cui viviamo.
Jeppe Hein
Geometric mirrors
Geometric Mirrors is a series of mirror angles, each comprised of two mirror surfaces intersecting at a 90° angle. While a perpendicular viewpoint simply reflects the viewer and the opposite space, an interesting visual phenomenon occurs when the viewer faces the corner angle directly. The right angle causes a duplicate reflection, as both mirrors reflect not only the space but also each other. Their widths become extended into the adjoining side, thus appearing to the viewer as a mirrored cross rather than a mirrored angle.
BARABÁSILAB
Schemi Nascosti
La rete di co-citazione per la natura: più di 88.000 articoli pubblicati dalla rivista dal 1900 sono rappresentati ciascuno da un punto, colorato dalla disciplina. Gli articoli sono collegati se un altro articolo scientifico (di quelli indicizzati nel Web of Science) li cita entrambi; la dimensione del punto riflette il numero di questi link di co-citazione. Connessioni invisibili e nascoste e schemi che si ripetono costantemente all’interno della natura, della società, della lingua e della cultura non solo possono essere esplorati ma anche resi visibili. L’approccio di rete di Barabási promette di fornire un metodo completo e universale che illuminerà molti fenomeni con precisione scientifica.
TING-TONG CHANG
Robinson
FILE FESTIVAL
A obra “Robinson” faz parte do corpo de trabalho de Ting-Tong Chang que investiga a história dos autômatos na Europa como meio de explorar visões utópicas. A palavra “autômato” é freqüentemente usada para descrever máquinas que se movem sozinhas, especialmente aquelas que foram feitas para se assemelhar a ações humanas ou animais. Do Pato Digesting de Jacques de Vaucanson (1739) ao Teatro Mecânico de Andreas Jakob Graf Dietrichstein (1752), os autômatos divertiram reis e princesas, ensinaram lições morais aos cidadãos e levantaram questões filosóficas profundas.
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“Robinson” is part of Ting-Tong Chang’s body of work investigating the history of automata in Europe as a means of exploring utopian visions. The word “automaton” is often used to describe machines that move by themselves, especially those that are made to resemble human or animal actions. From Jacques de Vaucanson’s Duck Digesting (1739) to Andreas Jakob Graf Dietrichstein’s Mechanical Theater (1752), automatons entertained kings and princesses, taught moral lessons to citizens, and raised deep philosophical questions.
ALEX STODDARD
Алекс Стоддард
亚历克斯斯托达德
Madi Boyd
the Point of Perception
Produced in collaboration with neuroscientists at UCL, Beau Lotto and Mark Lythgoe, this work is art and science; we intend it as an experiment in the gallery. It manifests as an immersive environment consisting of a ‘screen’ which is a large gridded space of uncertainty and projected film.The project came about after I undertook a period of research of the human visual system and neuroesthetics and set up a collaboration with Professor Mark Lythgoe and Dr Beau Lotto at UCL.
Sarah Oos
Femme Chanel
video art
FILE FESTIVAL
Lerata and Arts Brookfield
Lumibolic
Lumibolic is an interactive and occupiable environment shaped from hyperbolic paraboloid geometries. Its luminous surfaces are composed of strands of glowing EL wire that modulate their form and intensity in response to sound and motion inputs. Designed to generate dynamic visual vibrations inspired by the work of Op-Artists Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely, the piece visualizes relationships between site and visitor on a large scale.
ROMAN SIGNER
Романа Зигнера
Aktion in Sedrun
Né en 1938 en Suisse, Roman Signer est mondialement connu pour ses performances « explosives ». Depuis 1973, il conçoit une œuvre combinant sculpture, performance, photographie et documentation filmique. Fasciné par la puissance de la nature, il n’a de cesse de l’expérimenter à l’aide d’actions d’une grande force poétique, souvent à la limite du danger.
Tanabe Chikuunsai
Vuslat
Tanabe was born to one of Japan’s most prestigious bamboo pedigrees and is the fourth generation of his family to take the artist name Chikuunsai, meaning “master of the bamboo clouds.” Tanabe works hard to keep his family’s legacy alive by mastering the styles and techniques that the Tanabe family is known for, while also establishing his own original artistic voice.
Renzo Piano
The New Pathe Foundation Headquarters
Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed the “organic creature” in the courtyard of a 19th-century block to house the new headquarters of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé – dedicated to preserving the history of French film company Pathé and promoting cinematography.
The egg-shaped form connects to the surrounding Haussmann-era buildings at four points. Its form curves away from the existing buildings and its top peeks over the roofline.
DUTCH INVERTUALS
Row Colors: Invertuals 2
These oversized, misshapen, foamy straightjacket bundles were made by Eindhoven-based duo Raw Color for design collective Dutch Invertuals. In a sweet range of minty pastels they look like they should provide a comfy bed, but wrapped around a head they’re more likely to suffocate. Created a couple of years ago as press material for Dutch Invertual’s participation in home furnishings exhibition Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the series creatively illustrates the malleability of material by taking flat foam and creating strange, abstract human sculptures.
