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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.

SCREENINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON THREATENED TERRITORIES

In conversation with artist Eliana Otta, we spoke about her trip to the area of Pucallpa in Peru. There, she revisited the communities Unipacuyacu, Sinchi Rocha and Puerto Nuevo, screening the work in progress of Virtual Sanctuary of Fertilizing Mourning in order to integrate the communities’ feedback into the project.

ARCTIC LANDSCAPES, ALTERNATIVE CARTOGRAPHIES AND MIGRATORY BIRDS

In late summer 2022, AlternaA (Andra Pop-Jurj and Lena Geerts Danau), Hyeseon Jeong, and Seongmin Yuk visited Iceland. The creators of Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North and The Backpack of Wings: Modern Mythology met local artists and practitioners, visited the unique landscapes of the Arctic, and hosted two workshops at the Nordic House in Reykjavik.

FUTURE PREDICTIONS AND PRESENT SYMBIOSIS

At the Cybernetics Library in New York, the artists Iris Qu曲晓宇 and Chao Hui Tu held an AI symbiosis workshop, in which participants played seven nonhuman characters that collectively challenged AI-predicted climate scenarios threatening their ecosystem.

TRONSFORMATION

At the Foundation for Contemporary Art in Accra, Ghana, artist Akwasi Bediako Afrane held his workshop TRONSFORMATION –Sustainability through hacking. There, he lead conversations about our relationship with consumer electronics, and connected participants to collectively build and exhibit their own TRONS.

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LIVING CHILI ARCHIVES

During their stay in Germany, artist Vincent Rumahloine and community leader Mang Dian took over a square in Pforzheim with artistic interventions while exchanging agricultural knowledge at the Biochili farm in Lampertheim.

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.

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.