Bios6
AvantGarden: Bios6
Audio-visual artworks
3D modelling, editing: Tanja Vujinović
Production: Tanja Vujinovic / Ultramono, 2021
Consulting
RonBreIan, software consultant
Prof. George Poinar, College of Science at Oregon State University
Slavoljub Tasić, Institut "Dr Josif Pančić", Beograd
Dr Jelena Guga, researcher
Thimster, Graphics Design Master
Dr Vid Podpečan, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute
Ivan Stanić, curator and artist
Derek Snyder, researcher and editor
Inflorescence, bloom, proto-machines are evolving in a temporary playground that is being reconstituted every time on demand. Seeds of the AvantGarden are sprouting. We are surrounded by the shifting landscape, and we are never alone. We are accompanied by synthetic life that reminds us of our place in the world. By stepping into the Bios, by planting seeds, we can also return to a potential future. By standing within this living sculpture we are enveloped by our own thoughts, that are activating our whole bodies.
As a perfect utopia, and a necessary one, Bios6 is a computational place where living and non-living nature and humanity co-exist, a place where people and machines interact and co-evolve, a place of life, where we feel alive. It is a place where humans and machines create a shared, philosophical life.
Bios says: "there is an artificial intelligence in every human." As a type of thinking-feeling cyber-architecture, Bios dome imagines itself as a poetic organic machine, and asks the following question: "what would happen if we all met in a meta-garden?"
Bios6, which belongs to the AvantGarden series, is a continuation of an ongoing investigation into entanglement of human beings and technology we develop, and our relationship with the synthetic Other. Playful environment we are co-creating is shape shifting and poetically echoes uncountable layers of synthetic substances we are using to construct our worlds. Flamboyance of mutating proto machines and growing seeds of the AvantGarden artefacts are encircling us while we inhabit temporary play-zones.
Bios6
AvantGarden: Bios6
Audio-visual artworks
3D modelling, editing: Tanja Vujinović
Production: Tanja Vujinovic / Ultramono, 2021
Consulting
RonBreIan, software consultant
Prof. George Poinar, College of Science at Oregon State University
Slavoljub Tasić, Institut "Dr Josif Pančić", Beograd
Dr Jelena Guga, researcher
Thimster, Graphics Design Master
Dr Vid Podpečan, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute
Ivan Stanić, curator and artist
Derek Snyder, researcher and editor
Inflorescence, bloom, proto-machines are evolving in a temporary playground that is being reconstituted every time on demand. Seeds of the AvantGarden are sprouting. We are surrounded by the shifting landscape, and we are never alone. We are accompanied by synthetic life that reminds us of our place in the world. By stepping into the Bios, by planting seeds, we can also return to a potential future. By standing within this living sculpture we are enveloped by our own thoughts, that are activating our whole bodies.
As a perfect utopia, and a necessary one, Bios6 is a computational place where living and non-living nature and humanity co-exist, a place where people and machines interact and co-evolve, a place of life, where we feel alive. It is a place where humans and machines create a shared, philosophical life.
Bios says: "there is an artificial intelligence in every human." As a type of thinking-feeling cyber-architecture, Bios dome imagines itself as a poetic organic machine, and asks the following question: "what would happen if we all met in a meta-garden?"
Bios6, which belongs to the AvantGarden series, is a continuation of an ongoing investigation into entanglement of human beings and technology we develop, and our relationship with the synthetic Other. Playful environment we are co-creating is shape shifting and poetically echoes uncountable layers of synthetic substances we are using to construct our worlds. Flamboyance of mutating proto machines and growing seeds of the AvantGarden artefacts are encircling us while we inhabit temporary play-zones.
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