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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/42371| Title: | 20//Twenty. A digital residency in the virtual Stadtbad. | Contributors/Performers: | SWILLEN, Anneleen | Issue Date: | 2023 | Abstract: | The residency and exhibition project '20//Twenty' brought together artists and scientists to explore the virtual Stadtbad as a cultural laboratory. This international and transdisciplinary project aimed to question the impact of a virtual space on artistic creation, mediation and perception. Greg Scheirlinckx and I, Anneleen Swillen, were invited to participate in this digital residency. From June till December 2023, we had the pleasure to collaborate with lux&auma, an experimental dance collective consisting of Carla Petzolt and Miriam Taschler. During this residency, Greg, Carla, Miriam and I created three new videos. Starting from the Ornamutations (artistic output from a previous project within the context of my research), Carla and Miriam developed a choreography. Their dance movements were then meticulously tracked by an AI system, through machine vision technology, and served, in turn, to move the Ornamutations, resulting in an experimental dialogue between dancers, imagery and AI. The three videos are displayed in the virtual swimming pool. | Keywords: | digital residency;dance;virtual;XR;AI | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/42371 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://www.stadtbad.eu/twenty https://www.virtualbathing.eu/interaktiv/index_interactive1show.php?l=de&teamid=6 https://artificialintelligems.com/20-twenty-a-digital-residency-in-the-virtual-stadtbad-2023/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C1WsWUSMwMj/?img_index=1 |
Discipline: | multidisciplinair | Research Context: | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGEMS DIGITAL RESIDENCY In 2023, Greg Scheirlinckx and I (together as Artificial Intelligems) participated in a digital residency organised by Stadtbad Kunstforum. This residency brought together a diverse group of artists, authors, architects and musicians. From June till December, tandems of two or four people worked on an artistic project in a digital 'twin' of a swimming pool in Brandenburg (DE). Greg and I collaborated with dancers Carla Petzolt and Miriam Taschler (dance collective lux&auma). I have been wanting to collaborate with dancers to dig deeper into the subject of embodiment in relation to the Ornamutations which are co-created within the context of my research since 2021. Reading Jeroen Peeters' book, 'And then it got legs: Notes on dance dramaturgy,' and participating in a panel discussion with Jeroen Peeters and Kristof van Gestel at PXL-MAD in February 2023, had further sparked my interest in the domain of contemporary dance. I am keen to understand what contemporary dance can bring to my research and to explore the insights and questions that will emerge when combining contemporary jewellery, dance, experimental music, and AI (such as computer vision). Moreover, given the research interests of Carla and Miriam, I saw this collaboration as an opportunity to delve deeper into social and political aspects of AI. The project's digital pools are accessible through the website, allowing online visitors to track the artistic and exhibition process. This initiative has given me the chance to explore curating digital artistic practices, without the constraints of physical limitations in a virtual space. It raises intriguing possibilities on how to present images, sound, text, and more in a digital pool that one can navigate in an experimental way, and in which features such as scale and proximity can be played with. The impact on the perception and experience of the work is a key consideration. It prompts reflections on whether this constitutes a new form of collaborative creation. These questions guide the exploration of how to shape the space and present the artistic process. Furthermore, this project served as valuable preparation for curating the Let's Get Phygital exhibitions (2023-2024). GENERAL INFO (from the website) "With the kick-off panel on June 4th, the cultural laboratory project 20 //TWENTY will start, which can be experienced publicly in the virtual STADTBAD over the coming months. The 20 actors from 8 nations were curated into 10 tandems that get involved with each other, make the process publicly tangible and at the same time question it. How does a counterpart impulse and influence me artistically, humanly, aesthetically - and this without the vulnerable body in virtual space? Or not. In addition to diverse and heterogeneous, aesthetic forms of expression such as painting, music, dance, word, photography, sound, object, performance, installation and scientific perspectives such as performance art in Eastern Europe, knowledge transfer or forest research, the actors are united by an interdisciplinary basic interest in culture , science and intercultural cooperation. The virtual STADTBAD was rebuilt for this laboratory trip with 10 more swimming pools and a complex backend with interactive design tools for 2D, 3D objects, multimedia forms of expression in sound and video, room and light design options, object movement effects up to water and fog. The artists regularly leave status and process reports on a white board in their respective pools in order to make the development artistically, transculturally, technically or personally tangible. 20 // TWENTY is a project which explores art and people in digital-virtual spaces and critically examines them. Which meaningfulness, emotions, mediation possibilities, joys and methods can be synthesized for artists and their work? And what digital elements and levels linger in pure self-occupation. The project also includes transdisciplinary panels. The head of the Botanical Garden Hamburg Dr. Thea Lautenschläger on rhythm in botany, Prof. Dr. Stefan Altmeyer from the Cologne University of Applied Sciences on optical illusions and the Belgian curator and galerist Benjamin Fleig on transcultural projects and engage in an exchange with the 20 actors. The project is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg." | Impact Description: | The project was furthermore presented in: - the exhibition SCHAU MIR IN MEIN FENSTER (15/12/2023 - 15/01/2024, St. Johanniskirche Brandenburg an der Havel) - the conference 'IMMERSIVE X - The Next Reality' (29 - 30/11/2023, https://www.immersive-x.de/) | Related Info: | Stadtbad Kunstforum Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg Ornamutations Ornamisms |
Category: | AOR | Type: | Artistic/designerly creation |
| Appears in Collections: | Artistic/designerly creations |
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