| | | |  | | | | 11v151131_M06: "Future Archeological Research" | | | | | Altered Emotions | | | | | | | June 29 - July 22, 2023 | | | Opening: Thursday, 29 June, 7pm
Curated by Johanne Björklund Larsen & Cille SCH | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Aaron Scheer: "DaNA XXIV" | | | | | | "ALTERED EMOTIONS" is a group exhibition that delves into the profound impact of technological advancements on our perception and interaction with our surroundings. Through a wide range of mediums, the exhibition employs the power of aesthetics to explore the new structures which frame our reality. Examining the interconnected space of empathy, meaning and perception, the show offers a kaleidoscopic exploration of how we experience the world.
Technological advancements increasingly blur the line between the digital and the analogue world actively altering the human experience. As new inventions seep into the public as well as the private sphere, the structures and frameworks we once relied upon to understand reality feel inadequate. Our presence now extends beyond what lies within our physical reach, with our devices enabling a simultaneous presence in the digital realm. Thus we now have a dual existence, splitting our focus and engagement between the two. These innumerable gadgets have also inundated us with an overwhelming amount of information. This content overload has created a culture of superficial engagement, where we skim the surface without ever delving into depths of understanding. The effect of these new habits does not only influence our interactions in the digital world but likewise impacts our behavior on a broader scale, modifying our engagement online as well as offline. | | | | | |  | | | | 11v151131_M06: "Future Archeological Research" | | | As an example Julio Clavijo, an artist known as 11v151131_M06 (invisible mob) users Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative algorithms, to create images that become a window into a parallel reality. Drawing inspiration from ritualistic practices around the world, Clavijo delves into the depths of imaginary narratives and timelines. Using custom image data sets and machine learning techniques, he blurs the boundaries between what is authentic and what is constructed. The convergence of rituals, ancient artifacts, and digital interventions creates a visual dialogue in reflection of our relationship with the future and the past:
"Shamanism and rituals have been big part of my life since my upbringing. Being partially raised by my grandmother in rural Mexico, this experience has become a big influence in the way i perceive the world and has translated into my art. I have embraced the connection between the natural and supernatural. This influence has brought me to challenge an artificial intelligence to work around these topics and know if it can be trained to interpret these concepts from a non human perspective and create an artificial environment where the rituals that we engage in every day are amplified, distorted and decomposed creating a parallel timeline of events in our world", Clavijo explains.
"ALTERED EMOTIONS" examines how these developments have transformed the way we see and immerse ourselves with the world around us. Arguably, we have never been able to grasp the full scope of reality, yet we can now directly engage with ways that warp the experience in real-time. The exhibition seeks to highlight the distortion by including artworks inhabiting a paradoxical nature that exposes how we cannot blindly trust the instant conclusions of our first impressions. However, as we move beyond compelling juxtapositions, the question remains of how these new ways of seeing affect us rudimentary. Because as our engagement becomes more superficial, we disrupt how we empathize and the ways we discern meaning. | | | | | |  | | | | Anna Ehrenstein: "Social Neuroplasticity 1" | | | | As research for a work cycle Anna Ehrenstein made an education as a hypnotherapist in 2022. For "ALTERED EMOTIONS" she created two assemblages, that come together with a binaural hypnosis that can be listened to in the exhibition space. The hypnosis is based on the virality of online and offline empathy building, virality and the findings of social neuroplasticity researcher Tania Singer. According to Singer, social neuroscientist and key researcher focusing on the developmental, neuronal, and hormonal mechanisms underlying human social behavior; for social emotions as compassion and empathy, repetition and endurance of experiments lay the foundation of building neural perspective change that leads to action. Ehrensteins Assemblages make use of cheap A.I. imagery, with the A.I. prompted to "create a portrait that evokes empathy" and juxtaposed with 3D brain imagery showing the medial orbitofrontal cortex, the area Singer and her colleagues assigned to positive affect and social neuroplasticity. | | | | | |  | | | | Arne Grugel: "Golden Gate" | | | | Arne Grugel’s work is an example of such invitation to take a break; to come back to ourselves and spend time in space, infusing it with harmony. At first glance, the image comes across as very digital but it’s all the contrary. The analogue production process is about time. As a much slower medium than digital photography, it requires a high degree of accuracy. It works in real-time and, in his opinion, this tempo is ideal for capturing the subtext of each shot which is materialized in his prints. The multiple carefully assorted exposures of the figures he is creating, leave a unique impression of planet-like bodies or artificial creatures which float quietly in space and expand in dimensions. In a world where AI tools are available to everybody, offering the possibility of creating complex imagery in less than a second, the photographer takes the opposite road. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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