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by grotesk.group

28.06 - 02.07. at Hangar 1

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 ACI 

"The revolution will not be automated"  by Clemens Schöll

Media Art Animated Puppet Theater
Opening 8 July 2023, 16:00 - 21:30
Exhibition: 12.07-09.08.2023
Wed-Sat 12.00-18:00

Location: Markgrafenstraße 86, 10969 Berlin

Courtesy Clemens Schöll. Copyright: Ortrun Bargholz

At the center of the exhibition "The revolution will not be automated" is the 'small automation theater'. The 17-minute fully automated puppet theater installation uses classic hand puppets to tell the story of the Wohnungsbot. The Wohnungsbot is a free, open source software that Clemens Schöll developed and released in 2019. The software acts as an "ibuprofen for apartment hunting" and seemingly frees people from the symptoms of rent madness in Berlin. After an initial euphoria, however, the situation in the play turns against the apartment seekers and the question arises: Can there be technical solutions to social problems?

The puppet theater is the third and last part of the work cycle "Of someone who went forth to find a flat in Berlin" -  An automation-drama in three acts". Based on the search for an apartment in Berlin and the problems associated with it, the works address the current and future social challenges posed by automation. This promises liberation from work, but often works to the disadvantage of already precariously living population groups in ways that are not very visible. The characters and the puppet theater play with the technological contexts and their stereotypical roles in the format and in meta-narratives.

Clemens Schöll's work with automated puppet and object theater seeks narrative forms to make automation, technical systems and their social consequences tangible and visible. The absence of a playing person shifts the focus from the psychological subject to the machinery as a symbol of the acting structures. The familiarity of the characters and their wit invite people to engage with the complex and abstract contexts.

Courtesy Clemens Schöll. Copyright: Ortrun Bargholz

Of someone who went forth to find a flat in Berlin. An automation-drama in three acts — Act 3: In ultimate consequence

17 minutes, no break

with

Kasperle

Prinzessin

Krokodil

Wohnungsbot

spoken by

Monika Freinberger (Kasperle, Prinzessin, Krokodil)

Marlene [AWS Polly] (Wohnungsbot)

Copy editing

Christopher Heyder

Production

Ortrun Bargholz

Markgrafenstraße 86,10969 Berlin
Opening 14.04.23 17:00
Exhibition: 15.04.- 20.05.2023

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Interactive analog media art exhibition.

We are looking forward to another exciting solo exhibition by Wolfgang Spahn. The German-Austrian artist Wolfgang Spahn works mainly with electronic components, which he manipulates substantially and fundamentally until they become independent installations and artworks. In doing so, he proceeds with a radical freedom that shakes up our conventional understanding of signals, images, sounds, digital and analog. Wolfgang Spahn is interested in the level below. Visit our exhibition and experience how Wolfgang Spahn creates works of art with electronics.

 

 

The exhibition "Kybersonic meets Vision" shows current sound-light-video installations by Wolfgang Spahn, which make time patterns of the control processes of cybernetic networks audio-visually tangible. Cybernetics is the basis of artificial intelligence (AI), it is therefore also called the art of controlling. Making it visible and audible is the concern of the artist Wolfgang Spahn. The exhibition shows sound and light structures generated from dynamic, self-regulating and self-organizing systems.

"Feedback and Oscillation" is the title of a chapter in "Cybernetics - or Control and Communication of the Animal and the Machine" (1948) by the founder of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener.
Wolfgang Spahn returns to these origins with his current works. Accordingly, feedback and oscillations are at the core of these works, which Spahn therefore calls kybersonor and kybervisuell. The artistic material is electronic circuits that control, regulate and oscillate.

With apparatuses, projectors and synthesizers developed by the artist, the resulting electromagnetic signals become audible, visible and tangible. The signals remain the same, only their manifestation differs. Sound and light thus become an equal part of the artworks and thus an integral part of their aesthetics. Patterns of reflections and sounds marry into an original form of light, color, and sound.

The central core of the exhibition is a network of analog artificial neurons - the artificial and artistic brain that connects all the works. This circuit, developed by Wolfgang Spahn, communicates with all the other artworks, processing their information and controlling them. It functions as an "art-generating" artificial intelligence that coordinates and controls all the works arranged around it. In this respect, the exhibition can also be understood as an "experiment with artificial beings" in the sense of Valentin Breitenberg.

The works on display emerged from an exploration of the themes of chance, chaos, and self-similarity-a topos from chaos research in the 1980s. In this respect, all installations are centrally controlled and coordinated, but at the same time they are always acoustic and visual events determined by chaos and chance. Regular patterns of sound and light are therefore original and unpredictable in detail; they seem alive and natural. Wolfgang Spahn's art thus takes up current AI developments, but he also understands it as a counter-design to the de-emotionalized surfaces of our time. Thus, this art is in its interior a universal and concrete, and yet it appears and sounds in its external effect alive, natural and sensual.

Text: Dr. Ricarda de Haas

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