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ARCTIC LANDSCAPES, ALTERNATIVE CARTOGRAPHIES AND MIGRATORY BIRDS
News, 7 Prototypes • 30.09.2022

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.

SCREENINGS AND REFLECTIONS ON THREATENED TERRITORIES
News, 7 Prototypes • 23.09.2022

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.

FROM THE ORIGINS OF LIFE TO FUTURE PROTOTYPES
News, 7 Prototypes • 20.09.2022

This summer, the authors of our seven selected projects travelled to Karlsruhe, Germany, where they visited ZKM, Center for Art and Media, and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design’s Bio Design Lab.

FUTURE PREDICTIONS AND PRESENT SYMBIOSIS
News, 7 Prototypes • 15.09.2022

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.

SCIENCE-BASED FICTIONS
7 Prototypes • 28.06.2022

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
7 Prototypes • 28.04.2022

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
7 Prototypes • 22.04.2022

“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
7 Prototypes • 14.04.2022

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.

ELECTRONIC GIZMOS THROUGH NETWORKS OF DESIRE, MINING AND WASTE
7 Prototypes • 05.04.2022

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.

Forests of Indigenous life cycles and histories of displacement
7 Prototypes • 29.03.2022

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
7 Prototypes • 22.03.2022

In a conversation with artist Iris Qu曲晓宇 we speak about futuristic fictions through the lens of AI agents and the physical locations of algorithms.

Grasping landscape through relationships, sensory bodies and movement
7 Prototypes • 16.03.2022

Following the presentation of Monsters and Ghosts of the Far North last October in Berlin, Andra Pop-Jurj 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.

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