Oour lives as data sets, as generators of personally identifiable information, as objects of cluster analysis and sources for metadata matching algorithms. The process of capturing life in data, of quantifying life, is a lossy compression that uses imprecise approximations, rounding and truncation, producing overload distortions and quantization errors. A video for the British Human Computer Interaction Conference.
空 Kū is most commonly translated as “void”, but also means “sky”, representing those things beyond our everyday experience, especially those things made of pure energy. An immersive audiovisual experience that explores the incredible world of electromagnetic fields, bringing back images of geometries that cannot be observed elsewhere. The signal is modulated by a digital modular system, but the output is analogue, an electromagnetic event taking place before our very eyes. A journey into pure light.
Hhow do we place ourselves in the flow of life and time, how do we interact with the waves of destiny, how do we face our condition of loneliness together with everyone else, where do we find the mystical and philosophical dimension of existence, how can we reduce suffering in the world and build a more equal society in harmony with nature? And if we can do nothing, what can we do?
S Second Brain is is an artificial life project that embodies the very essence of living systems—behavior, adaptability, and emotional expression—through the medium of light. The lamp operates as a dynamic, evolving entity, driven by advanced AI, and interacts autonomously with its environment to reflect and express complex emotional states. Just like a living organism, it learns, adapts, and evolves, responding to stimuli with unpredictable behaviors.
This project was presented in the exhibition Every Single Thing That Exists in the Infinite Universe Is Either a Duck or no Duck, about the worldly multi-species communities and their entanglement. Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, 19.10.2024 – 26.02.2025 Curated by Dr. Karolina Wlazto-Malinowska