interactive installations
— 12-18 SEPT. / 14:00-20:00
— Comenduirea Garnizoanei
The Somatist, the Entropist and the Skeptic is an artistic and research-oriented project, at the intersection between art and science. It will unfold in a series of interactive art installations. The artists – Floriama Candea, Sabina Suru & Andrei Tudose, and Cătălin Creţu try to decipher together and along with the public, new ways of relating to technology, while positioning themselves in this connection. The aim of the project is to raise awareness on the responsibility we have in the human-technology relationship, by researching the ability of technologies to be an invisible guide to our behaviors, habits, and physical & emotional states, thus blurring the boundaries between the natural and the artificial world.
The Somatist, the Entropist and the Skeptic project uses several types of technologies, more or less intrusive: machine learning algorithms, generative manipulation of image and sound, computer vision, sensors for recording physiological data (e.g. , EEG, EKG, chemo-sensors) – technologies that have become commonplace, which we no longer pay attention to, but which have the ability to record data (whether images or parameters of our physical or emotional state) and make it visible in unexpected ways. The interaction with the artifacts of the collective installation proposes to guide the public in rethinking the relationship between the individual human agency and that of convivial technologies. The project provides clues about the place and responsibility people have in relation to technology, translating it into a chain of events that generate visual artistic content.
The Somatist, The Entropist & The Skeptic is a project co-funded by AFCN.
Research partner: Institutul Naţional de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizica Materialelor
Cultural partners: BRD Scena9 Residence, ARS ELECTRONICA Export, SIMULTAN Festival