water_on_mars by Gabriele Neugebauer and Birds on Mars expands Neugebauer's photographs with a technological perspective: For more than one week they trained an AI, a “generative adversarial network” (GAN), to learn form, color, and space of water by analyzing 200 of Neugebauer’s photos. The photo series illustrates how the AI apparently further develops motifs and creates new fictitious water worlds.
Read MoreAs if to shape a giant organism, Stefan Wischnewski links fishing gear to shape a seemingly living matter. For the current display at the STATE Studio, convex mirrors are installed to give a perception of motion to the static installation.
Read MoreIn Amanda Tasse's short film Mira, the immortal jellyfish accompanies a marine biologist in her dives and contemplations. Struggling with the cognitive consequences of temporal lobe epilepsy, the protagonist immerses herself in the undiscovered wonders of the deep sea.
Read MoreThe documentary Wind Should Be Heard Not Seen by Claire Sanford discusses human adaptability in times of extreme climatic change.
Read MoreThe short film Managed Retreat by video artist and photographer Nathan Kensinger ties on global coastal management strategies. It depicts the first official New York project, which started relocating the human habitat to the inland in order to restore natural areas for the benefit of the ecosystem and stop further coastal erosion.
Read MoreThe Society of Nontrivial Pursuits developed an ensemble of hypothetical deep-sea inhabitants. They form a “utopological” network of beings who negotiate behavior shared among themselves thanks to a coded collectivity.
Read MoreWhen: 16 April, 6 pm - 10 pm
Where: STATE Studio, Hauptstr. 3, 10827 Berlin
STATE Studio’s first thematic exhibition Hydrosphären is dedicated to water via interdisciplinary and experimental dives of artists and researchers who explore thematic intersections of water. With works by Stefan Wischnewski, Amanda Tasse, Claire Sanford, Nathan Kensinger, Birds on Mars with Gabriele Neugebauer and the exhibition project Deep Sea with works by von Alberto de Campo, Hannes Hoelzl, Christian Schmidts, Bruno Gola, Isak Han, Kathrin Hunze, Hana Yoo, Cammack Lindsey, Yoonjoo Lee, Sanni Nam und Mija Healey.
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