Projects
konS ≡ PARK – Academy for contemporary investigative art
The konS Academy was established primarily to build an audience in the field of contemporary art research, to sensitise young people and the general public to change, understanding of science, technology, art and to develop attitudes that help us understand the dynamics of contemporary society in order to empower young people to use new technologies.
Under the Calculative Gaze
Sanela Jahić’s project investigates how socially-applied technological tools are not only directly intertwined with unresolved injustices of our current system, but actually accelerate a transition towards authoritarianism that is present in the technology industry itself, in the politics of various countries and institutions, and in the rise of far-right political movements.
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OctoSens is an 8-channel interface that allows the reception of signals from various analogue and digital sensors and their calibration. This multi-sensorial synthesiser was developed by the OctoSens community, advocating active peer collaboration and the principles of democratic co-design. The community amalgamates different generations and professions, ranging from engineers, artists, and students to audio-electronics enthusiasts. Committed to the free flow of knowledge, it invents creative ways to pass on the acquired skills and expand locally and beyond.
mybot ∑igma
Unlike conventional, typically top-down school learning, investigative learning promotes intellectual emancipation by facilitating horizontal knowledge transfer between students of different ages and abilities. Such an approach to learning and skill development has prompted us to design a unique web interface. It motivates creative learning so that the users, in the process, develop their own virtual assistant that gets smarter and more sophisticated with each workshop attendance.
C-lab – Interactive collaborative platform
The idea of a tool facilitating a creative process involving an interdisciplinary group motivated us to design an interactive room, a setting in which a landscape of articulated thoughts, references and sketches surrounds the innovators. The process is controlled by an innovation catalyst that ‘translates’ different professional languages into a comprehensive speech, promoting the pursuit of common goals.
StellaVerde – Inspirational prototype of precision garden as a possible scenario for sustainable food production
StellaVerde is a vertical garden, in which a functional connection between animals, plants, and robots allows plants and animals (in this case fish) to use robots according to their needs. The machine, in this case a five-legged spiderbot and custom developed computer code for its locomotion, and algorithm for plants’ well-being, interprets the data and translates it into a watering rout(in)e for the spiderbot.
Chronolith
In the work Chronolith, consisting of a complex multi-channel sound composition and stone slab installation, the bioacoustic group Jata C investigates the acoustics and temporal dimensions of stone structures, as well as their sustainability and interdependence with humans. The installation serves as stone instrument, a sensorial extension to the human body, with which the composition and the vibrations of the stones are fed back into the materiality of the slabs with the help of transducers, forming a feedback loop.
Dinner with a hyperobject
The world has become a philosophical laboratory [1], as technology and not man or nature came to the fore for the first time. Technology first subsumed nature, and then it turned on man. She blamed him for his attitude and bias and, above all, the unexplained assumption that some things were not for her: why e.g. he believed that language has no place, even if it can communicate, why it should not understand the meaning, even though language is primarily a (logical-formal) system and only then a means of communication.
,separated values
The project ,separated values explores the simulative potential of data processes, a key element of contemporary cultural and technological formations. As part of the project, the artist developed a device that enables different interface strategies for data processing. Through a series of transmissions between data and signal (digital and analogue), the device has been used to materialise various natural and social phenomena as data models.
Empathy Swarm Orchestra
The interactive robotic artwork, which includes 10 robots, is a research platform for the embodiment of artificial intelligence and explores Marie-Luise Angerer’s notion of affect and her warning to keep coincidence alive as a special open form of possibility that could easily be lost through technology intertwining life and the environment in a rigid AI system.
Carbolytics
Joana Moll is a Barcelona/Berlin-based artist and researcher. Her work critically explores the way techno-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. Her main research topics include internet geopolitics, data materiality, surveillance, techno-colonialism and interfaces. Her project Carbolytics is at the intersection of art and research that aims to raise awareness and call for action on the environmental impact of pervasive surveillance within the advertising technology ecosystem (AdTech), as well as to provide a new perspective to address the social and environmental costs of opaque data collection practices.