ZKM | Karlsruhe | Artist Talk with Christian Mio Loclair | Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe @zkmkarlsruhe | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 9 minutes ago.
An artificial intelligence looks at itself in the mirror: What thoughts does it have? – This is exactly what the artist Christian Mio Loclair expresses with his work »Narciss« that is presented as part of the exhibition »BioMedia« at ZKM Karlsruhe.
"The project Narciss aims to question mankind’s self-righteous model of self-awareness, the quality of subjective findings while investigating oneself and the resulting unequal distribution of dignity. Narciss is both an artistic intervention and artificial intelligence whose only purpose is to investigate itself, referencing a synthetic model of self-awareness, a fragment of artificial narcissism and a fictional character in its own autobiographical narrations." (christianmioloclair.com/narciss)
About the video series:
Artist and artwork are connected in a very special way – They have a relationship with one another, almost like humans. Especially when it comes to moving and interactive artworks combined with artificial intelligence we need to rethink our understanding of »life«. So in our new series »Art me Anything« we decided to ask the artists of the ZKM exhibitions random questions about life and technology – like, „How do you define whether something is alive?“ or „Would you upload your mind to a cloud?“.
More on »It's About Life«:
zkm.de/en/event/2022/03/its-about-life
About the exhibition:
zkm.de/en/exhibition/2021/12/biomedia
This video was produced as part of „It’s about life“, funded within the impulse program »Culture despite Corona« of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg.
00:00 Opener
00:11 Were you surprised by your artwork?
01:16 What are you made of?
01:29 Should artificial life forms have legal rights?
02:13 Did you ever fall in live with a technology?
03:17 Outro
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An artificial intelligence looks at itself in the mirror: What thoughts does it have? – This is exactly what the artist Christian Mio Loclair expresses with his work »Narciss« that is presented as part of the exhibition »BioMedia« at ZKM Karlsruhe.
"The project Narciss aims to question mankind’s self-righteous model of self-awareness, the quality of subjective findings while investigating oneself and the resulting unequal distribution of dignity. Narciss is both an artistic intervention and artificial intelligence whose only purpose is to investigate itself, referencing a synthetic model of self-awareness, a fragment of artificial narcissism and a fictional character in its own autobiographical narrations." (christianmioloclair.com/narciss)
About the video series:
Artist and artwork are connected in a very special way – They have a relationship with one another, almost like humans. Especially when it comes to moving and interactive artworks combined with artificial intelligence we need to rethink our understanding of »life«. So in our new series »Art me Anything« we decided to ask the artists of the ZKM exhibitions random questions about life and technology – like, „How do you define whether something is alive?“ or „Would you upload your mind to a cloud?“.
More on »It's About Life«:
zkm.de/en/event/2022/03/its-about-life
About the exhibition:
zkm.de/en/exhibition/2021/12/biomedia
This video was produced as part of „It’s about life“, funded within the impulse program »Culture despite Corona« of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg.
00:00 Opener
00:11 Were you surprised by your artwork?
01:16 What are you made of?
01:29 Should artificial life forms have legal rights?
02:13 Did you ever fall in live with a technology?
03:17 Outro
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![[Day 4] Symposium: »After Memory. Recalling and Foretelling Across Time, Space, and Networks«](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ITjyLoJh5-U/hqdefault.jpg "[Day 4] Symposium: »After Memory. Recalling and Foretelling Across Time, Space, and Networks«
14:00 - 15:00 Living Open Archive (Elisabeth Krämer)15:30 - 17:00 Unmapping Landscapes: Of Ruins and Repositories (Giselle Beiguelman, Ofri Cnaani, e. a.)Chek out the complete programme: https://aftermemory.net/#/programmeEssentially, all memory only exists a posteriori. Only what has already passed, can be recalled; only what has already been forgotten can be remembered. Yet, as the present expands endlessly and drowns the perception of temporality in a constant flow of images and information, how can we determine what will have had to be known for the future? Submerged, as we are, in this perpetual now, how can we recollect the past or imagine possible futures beyond the confines of our present time? Isolated in algorithmic filter bubbles and echo chambers, how can we share remembrances and foster a sense of community?After Memory reflects on how memory is affected by endless social media feeds, clouded storage spaces, automated data storage, and networked communication technologies. This bears both challenges and chances, as practices of remembering and forgetting are reconfigured and their competences are transferred from institutional actors to civic initiatives and individuals. In turn, the role of museums and archives is redefined, too, whose collections no longer preside over a sovereign narration of the past, but constitute shared repositories for the future.The project AFTER MEMORY begins with a symposium that brings together key figures from the fields of art, science, technology, museology, and activism. It aims to initiate an open process of experimentation and imagination and to form a sustainable network for exchanging and developing ideas in collaborative ways. The programme unfolds along three lines of enquiry that consider the spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of digital memory.The project AFTER MEMORY begins with a symposium that brings together key figures from the fields of art, science, technology, museology, and activism. It aims to initiate an open process of experimentation and imagination and to form a sustainable network for exchanging and developing ideas in collaborative ways. The programme unfolds along three lines of enquiry that consider the spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of digital memory.The international symposium »After Memory. Recalling and Foretelling Across Time, Space, and Networks« is hosted by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, 23 - 26 October 2024. Follw us on social media:Facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/zkmkarlsruheInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/zkmkarlsruheTikTok: https://tiktok.com/@zkmkarlsruheand visit our website: https://zkm.de")
![Arnaud Obermann: “Permanent […] wie oil painting” – A Look Back and the Road Ahead](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K0RrN4xuGnk/hqdefault.jpg "Arnaud Obermann: “Permanent […] wie oil painting” – A Look Back and the Road Ahead
Just in Time | On the Status Quo and Future of Electronic Art Preservation
Conference Fri, October 07, 2022 – Sat, October 08, 2022,
The material culture of the electrified and digitized 20th and 21st centuries is exceedingly fragile. Neither electronic components nor software are made to last forever. This also affects works of art that use electronic and digital technologies: Museums are supposed to preserve them for future generations, but many works are already at risk of permanent loss. What are the biggest challenges of preserving media art? Where is there an urgent need for action? The symposium invites you to join a number of international experts to gain insight into the status quo of electronic arts conservation and to discuss possible future scenarios.
The event was aimed at conservators, colleagues from public and private collections, computer scientists, electrical engineers, artists, students and an interested public.
Speakers
• Elisa Carl & Jee-Hae Kim [Hamburger Bahnhof]
• Christian Draheim, Florian Draheim & Jochen Saueracker [Colorvac / ZKM | Karlsruhe]
• Tom Ensom & Jack McConchie [Tate, London]
• Patricia Falcao [Tate, London]
• Martina Haidvogl [Bern University of Applied Sciences / Bern University of the Arts]
• Inge Hinterwaldner [Institute for the History of Art and Architecture, KIT]
• Alex Michaan [Atelier Sonar / Université de Saint-Etienne]
• Dorcas Müller [ZKM | Karlsruhe]
• Arnaud Obermann [Staatsgalerie Stuttgart]
• Joanna Phillips & Lan Linh Merli-Nguyen Hoai [Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf]
• Morgane Stricot, Matthieu Vlaminck [ZKM | Karlsruhe]
• Nadja Wallaszkovits [KNMDI, ABK Stuttgart]
• Andreas Weisser [Preservation as a Service / Doerner Institut]
Credits
Morgane Stricot (Concept)
Margit Rosen (Concept)
Jenny Starick (Project management)
Video Documentary
ZKM | Videostudio
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