Zakar
Rethinking public space in times of AI
Video HD, color, sound, GAN Generated videos & Real Time Animation, 05’30’’
Year: 2021
Collaborator: Andra Băltiou, Davide Porta, Juaniko Moreno, Marco Camargo, Sandro Miccoli
Contribution: Storyboard, Script, Data Visualization
Toolkits: Unity, Photogrammetry GAN, Data Visualization, After Effect
Prize: Best film prize in ASIFA Best Austrian Animation, Experiemental section, see press release
Shortlisted in the Athens Digital Arts Festival
Exhibited in Ars Electronica and Daste Bergamo and Motori Digitali
Year: 2021
Collaborator: Andra Băltiou, Davide Porta, Juaniko Moreno, Marco Camargo, Sandro Miccoli
Contribution: Storyboard, Script, Data Visualization
Toolkits: Unity, Photogrammetry GAN, Data Visualization, After Effect
Prize: Best film prize in ASIFA Best Austrian Animation, Experiemental section, see press release
Shortlisted in the Athens Digital Arts Festival
Exhibited in Ars Electronica and Daste Bergamo and Motori Digitali
What if the public space itself can transform its architecture according to that incoming stream of data instead of by complicated, bureaucratic, top-down political decisions?
Zakar is a speculative, free-flowing beatnik poetry video exploration on a self-organized AI public space that transforms according to the real-time data input on viral and microscopic populations that inhabits it. The urban touch-less design, the multiple screens measuring temperature and displaying updates of daily cases, were the most prominent transformation of the public realm during the thickest part of the lockdown.
The pandemic revealed our condition as vectors for transmission, of how microscopic life and information is attached to every trace of movement we make, and how any action has consequences. The next public space is defined by the constant sampling of its microscopic components, how by means of advances in AI supervised recognition and DNA barcoding it now becomes possible to model the bacterial and viral loads that inhabit public spaces alongside us.
It is perhaps this the only way in which our living environments can respond to the huge levels of complexity disclosed from this microscopic reality.
Zakar is a speculative, free-flowing beatnik poetry video exploration on a self-organized AI public space that transforms according to the real-time data input on viral and microscopic populations that inhabits it. The urban touch-less design, the multiple screens measuring temperature and displaying updates of daily cases, were the most prominent transformation of the public realm during the thickest part of the lockdown.
The pandemic revealed our condition as vectors for transmission, of how microscopic life and information is attached to every trace of movement we make, and how any action has consequences. The next public space is defined by the constant sampling of its microscopic components, how by means of advances in AI supervised recognition and DNA barcoding it now becomes possible to model the bacterial and viral loads that inhabit public spaces alongside us.
It is perhaps this the only way in which our living environments can respond to the huge levels of complexity disclosed from this microscopic reality.
Zakar è un flusso di coscienza che genera una poesia beatnik speculativa sullo lo spazio pubblico riorganizzato dalle intelligenze artificiali. Spazi in costante trasformazione e influenzati dai dati prodotti da chi abita il medesimo spazio: dalle persone fino a microscopiche forme di vita.
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