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DRIVING THE HUMAN: SEVEN PROTOTYPES FOR ECO-SOCIAL RENEWAL

November 25-27, 2022
silent green, Berlin

Explore the seven prototypes for Eco-social Renewal

The prototypes will be developed throughout 2022, and presented in Berlin on 25-27 November.

What is Driving the Human?

Know more about the 3 year project, its ambitions and timeline.

SCIENCE-BASED FICTIONS

At Temporary Gallery in Cologne, Hyeseon Jeong and Seongmin Yuk showed their sci-fi movie The Backpack of Wings and hosted a workshop format narrating the migration route of a white stork, aiming to create relations with non-human agents.

PLANTS AS LANGUAGE, HUMANS AS SEEDS

Initiated by Vincent Rumahloine and Mang Dian in Bandung, Western Indonesia, Sedekah Benih is a platform for knowledge exchange, focussing on bridging scientific and community knowledge by using seeds as vessels of ecological intelligence.

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ON PROTOTYPING AN AMBIENT LIVING INTELLIGENCE

“ALI” is an Ambient Living Intelligence, a sensor prototype currently developed by Anne-Sofie Belling, Bea Delgado Corrales, Romy Kaiser, and Paula Nerlich, who imagine the future of human bacteria communication as integrated within our homes.

SENSORY BIRD ROUTES

Hyeseon Jeong and Seongmin Yuk speculate on the possible implications of bird tracking technologies, from examining the data of migratory routes through an apocalyptic sci-fi lens, towards an allegorical mapping of the bird worlds they follow.

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ELECTRONIC GIZMOS THROUGH NETWORKS OF DESIRE, MINING AND WASTE

In conversation with Akwasi Bediako Afrane, we discussed the circulation of electronic devices, their environmental impact and how he is tracing relationships between humans and machines through his TRONS.

GRASPING LANDSCAPE THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS, SENSORY BODIES AND MOVEMENT

Following the presentation of Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North last October in Berlin, Andra Pop-Jurij and Lena Geerts Danau discuss how their project allows for a different connection to the messy, disorienting present we’re entangled in, alongside many nonhuman actors.

FORESTS OF INDIGENOUS LIFE CYCLES AND HISTORIES OF DISPLACEMENT

Eliana Otta contextualises her project Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning, a virtual space collaboratively built with the Peruvian communities Nuevo Amanecer Hawai, Unipacuyacu, Puerto Nuevo and Sinchi Roca, to learn about their assassinated leaders, and their threatened territories.

ECOSYSTEMS OF ALGORITHMIC FICTIONS

In a conversation with artist Iris Qu曲晓宇, author of Do AIs Dream of Climate Chaos, we speak about futuristic fictions through the lens of AI agents and the physical locations of algorithms.