[resource-net] SPEKTRUM Exhibition #13: Cybernetic Choreographies - 24-26 Nov 2017

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Exhibition #13:
Cybernetic Choreographies
24-26 November 2017
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*curated
by Alfredo Ciannameo *

*The exhibition #13: Cybernetic Choreographies questions artistic
modalities of human to machine and machine to machine interaction. The
boundaries of decision making are pushed beyond human centralized
perspectives toward larger and extended territories where Algorithmic and
Cybernetic conditions are generating new creative layers, in a
choreographic sense, of images, mechanical movements, artificial realities,
intelligent machines, body immersion and so on.*

*The redefinition of the role of machines in our world lies in the relation
of efficiency in terms of our user-understanding. Smart and Intelligent
techniques can prepare us to step further in our evolution by bringing our
human level (made of intuitions, emotions, values and metaphors) into what
is currently considered a black box. This paradox is investigated in the
exhibition by challenging the visitor to navigate in these alien languages
of machines while rediscovering an inner fundamental level of choreographic
enjoyment. *
DAILY PROGRAM

*Friday 24 Nov* (dayticket 5-10euro up to your offer)
18:30 | Exhibition opens
21:00 | Performance by Andreas Dzialocha

*Saturday 25 Nov* (dayticket 5-10euro up to your offer)
13:00 | Workshop Neural Synthesis by Gene Kogan (read more
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18:00 | Exhibition opens
20:30 | Performances by Tatsuru Arai / Luca De Rosso

*Sunday 26 Nov* (dayticket 5-10euro up to your offer)
18:00 | Exhibition opens
19:30 | Performances by The Society for Trivial Pursuits

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*INVITED WORKS*
*Marcel Schwittlick and Ramin Soleymani: Electronic Chaos Oracle #4* is an
ongoing artistic research project investigating possibilities of creating
an artificial intelligence systems to inspire it's observers. The
Electronic Chaos Oracle opens up new questions by continuously feeding back
the current topic of the conversation into the next question or statement
it's proposing. The project plays with the notion of automatically
generating novel ideas by simulating creativity. The edition #4 is an
augmented machine learning story, generated from millions of statements and
sentences taken from a database of textbooks.
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Electronic Chaos Oracle #4
*So Kanno & Jelle Reith:* *“What Is It Like to Be a Mouse?” *(VR-interactive
intrallation) In this IoT era, Every inorganic matter can have processor
and sensors on it. It means it could have intelligence and perception. What
about consciousness? What if somebody is controlling it remotely?
*Gene Kogan: Neural Synthesis*
Using the neural synthesis technique, we can reverse a neural network's
normal operation to have it draw patterns and objects recalled from its
memory by stimulating its individual neurons and layers. For this
exhibition Gene will present a collection of moving images generated by
applying these techniques.
*Andreas Dzialocha: Cybernetic Gamelan Future Automaton.* The automaton is
a network-based browser game for human performers and a machine learning
algorithm where each player controls its own future-gamelan instrument
using text symbols while travelling inside a 3D universe of parametric
architectures.
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AV0
*Luca De Rosso:* *AV0* is an exploration on human-computer collaboration in
the audio visual field, dedicated to those believing in computers as
partners in the creative flow.
*Boris Baltschun & Serge Baghdassarians: FACAdE* is a installation and
performance conceived for a 'movie theatre' where the usual screen is
replaced by a series of modified guitar tuners with led displays. These are
intended as reference to a common mnemonic of the guitar tuning – FACAdE.
The way the tuners are arranged is symbolizing the structure of the word
and the recurring need to tune.
[image: “Matters-ton” from Hyper Serial Music Tatsuru Arai]
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“Matters-ton” from Hyper Serial Music - Tatsuru Arai
*Tatsuru Atai: Matters-ton* is a 2nd chapter of his Hyper Serial Music
peroject/series aiming to expand, in new contemporary sense, classical
means related to the history of Serial Music. In this work, Tatsuru
developed and evolved into more complex and higher quality result,
unfolding the relation between Sound and Matters on the three Dimensions of
Space. By means of algorithmic simulation, principles designing the
audiovisual substance are correlated directly on showing the physical side
of Universe through human perception.
[image: Peter William Holden Presents [Arabesque]]
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Peter William Holden Presents [Arabesque]
*Peter William Holden: Video collection of Installations.* With its roots
in Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” and the alchemist’s laboratory, Arabesque
presents itself as a mechanical flower: a simulacrum of nature. Life sized
human body parts, impaled upon steel, move and sway and dance. The limbs,
translucent and livid, bare their internal robotic mechanisms to the gaze
of the viewer. The wiring itself is an aesthetic expression deliberately
integrated into the installation to bring chaotic lines of abstract form to
contrast with the organized symmetry of the body parts.
*NXS* is a new experimental printed publication, where each contributor
comments and reflects on a previous contribution. NXS explores "the self"
in the age of digital technology. The second issue of NXS, entitled
Synthetic Selves, centres on how the self is understood, whether we have a
complete agency in constructing ourselves and what kind of images of
ourselves we are broadcasting.
*The Society for Nontrivial Pursuits*
Complex behaviors, whether in feedback systems, chaotic circuits, social
systems and/or computer programs are fascinating objects of study. The
Society for Nontrivial Pursuits (students, alumni and associates of the
class Generative Art / Computational Art at UdK Berlin) explores the
possibility spaces of such systems for experimental performance. Heavily
influenced by the school of second order cybernetics (Heinz von Förster et
al.), they design, build and program their own audio/visual performance
systems based on a variety of devices, sensors, analog electronics, and
software synthesis, and use them in extremely diverse projects, often
intended for performance contexts.

Tonight’s performers include: Marija Mickeviča, Christian Schmidts, Kathrin
Hunze, Arik Kofranek, Marek Andrýsek, Bruno Gola, and Trio HAI: Isak Han,
Alberto de Campo, Hannes Hoelzl.
*Workshop Neural Synthesis by Gene Kogan*

   - *Time*: Saturday 25 November, 13:00 - 17:00
   - *Costs:* 55€
   - *Max number of participants:* 24 people
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   - *Contact: *kogan.gene at gmail.com

This workshop will introduce the technique of synthesizing images from the
imagination of a deep convolutional neural network, better known as
"deepdream" or neural synthesis and visualization.

Using the neural synthesis technique, we can reverse a neural network's
normal operation to have it draw patterns and objects recalled from its
memory by stimulating its individual neurons and layers. We will learn how
to mix, distort, and combine these extremely varied, colorful, and diverse
images into unique compositions.

We will also briefly show how to generate animated videos, a subject which
will be covered in more detail in a future follow-up workshop TBA. No prior
experience with machine learning or programming is required, as the code
will be provided.

All participants will make several of their own creations with the tools
provided before the end of the class. A gallery of some example images can
be found on http://genekogan.com/works/neural-synth/
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*SPEKTRUM* is a project space in Neukölln for idealisation, realisation and
exhibition of technology-based artworks, media-focused events and
futuristic utopias based on the principle "do-it-together-with-others". Above
all, we are an open space promoting participatory processes to co-define
and co-design a social and physical playground for curiosity and critical
understanding.

Alfredo Ciannameo & Lieke Ploeger

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