the Ishiyama Excursion

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This video features third incarnation AUJIK artifacts at an excursion at the Ishiyama dera in Japan. The artifacts are superfluous products generated in the crossbreed of human and technical evolution. They are in a state between resignation and euphoria, incapable of expressing themselves.
The Ishiyama dera is a sacred Buddhist area and is most famous because of the novelist Murasaki Shikibu who wrote “The Tale of Genji”(the worlds first novel) there. Also Ukiyo-E artist Ando Hiroshige portrayed Ishiyama dera in his “The Famous Views of 60-Odd Provinces”.
music: Chequerboard – Prince August
chequerboard.net/
produced by QNQ/AUJIK
q-n-q.com/aujikmovie.html
the Ishiyama Excursion received a honorary mention award at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the computer animation category and was part of OneDotZero’s international tour 2010/2011
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source: vimeo

QNQ/AUJIK are an contemporary artist mainly working with CGI-video, photos, installations, clothes, music and paintings.
Concept of the work is how Strong AI/AGI(Artificial General Intelligence)transcends with the human mind and vice verse.
AUJIK is constructed as an esoteric group who believes in animism and worships nature.
They divide nature in to:
Refined:
robotics
artificial intelligence
nano technology
dna manipulation
augemented reality
body enhancements
carbon nano tubes
synthetic photosynthesis
Primitive:
trees
plants
soil
organism
stones
metals
minerals
foliage
QNQ/AUJIK been featured at events such as Prix Ars Electronica 2011(honorary mention award: computer animation/vfx/film), Ars Electronica animation festival 2011, OnedotZero 2010&2011, Japan Media Arts Festival 2010, STRP festival, CMoDA Creative future exhibition Beijing 2012, Computer Space, SIGGRAPH Asia Singapore. Biwako Biennale. Japan 2012. Nordic Outbreak by the Streaming Museum. New York City 2013 . FILE 2013 FIESP Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil + Nordic Outbreak Nordic Tour Fall 2013.