Ignis 2024 Web page including one channel full HD color video with sound (14 seconds), html, cms, png, txt, mp4 1920 × 1080 pixels 2024
In 'Ignis', seconds act as years. Originally made in 2021 while we still had 14 years to reach carbon neutrality or the point of no return (Paris Agreement's critical warming limit of 1.5° to prevent catastrophic impacts), 'Ignis 2024' depicts the recent scientific results showing 2029 is more likely to be the cut-off year.
With this series, Diane Drubay plays with colour psychology to create an immersion that is both fascinating and shattering. She takes the viewer into an idealized vision of a world where interference colours cover the sky, creating a subjugating sense of calm. But suddenly, a layer of unpredictability is introduced bringing a sense of discomfort and anxiety. The more seconds tick by, the more space is taken up by corrupted data visuals. Adding another level of storytelling, the sonification of the global CO2 emissions data guides us towards emotional dissonance, leaving us mute in the face of the unknown.
As you explore, the scientific texts begin to overlap, reminding us of this impression of information overload. At the end, the text is associated with a QR code inviting us to take action.
In her metamedia, she adds layers of understanding and a final call to action to turn these emotions into concrete impact.
Source: Lamboll, R.D., Nicholls, Z.R.J., Smith, C.J. et al. Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets. Nature Climate Change. 2023
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Hypnotic Void of the Trance is a visual representation of my current techno-anxiety - in the year of 2024.
We're getting bombarded by images, news, and doomsday missives. Messages about AI being at the forefront of the human descent into automated hell.
No-one can predict what will happen. Time will tell if technology will enslave or liberate us.
One thing is sure, though, the void has an hypnotic texture to it, its abyss staring right back at us.
somaticbits - HTML / CSS / MP4 / Text - 2024
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M3RR0R is an experimental social hybrid research piece by Portrait XO. In collaboration with Thomash Haferlach, they designed a multilingual chatbot available on WhatsApp trained on Portrait XO's voice with a slightly absurdist personality. Images generated in this piece are from interrogating ChatGPT4 to test how well it knows their works, identity, and bias. Portrait XO AI responds to text, audio, and emojis: +4915208578397. New features are constantly updated e.g. soundtrack, image generation, etc.
Music and visuals by Portrait XO AI chatbot voice trained by Thomash Haferlach AI Personality designed by Portrait XO and Thomash Haferlach
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Solstice is a reverie inspired by my love of swimming in a small, spring-fed lake on the island where I live. Summer solstice marks the longest day of the year; the word comes from the Latin word "solsticium", which can be translated as "sun stands still". I wanted this piece to invoke a feeling of inhabiting a time out of time, with its meditative pace and focus on intimate, sensual details. Here the vitality, or eros, of the natural world is encountered through the physical; the perceived separation between the human and the more-than-human realms becomes blurred when we are a loving witness to and embodied participant in the everyday magic that exists all around us. Being in respectful, reciprocal relationship to the world we live in invites us to truly belong, and to celebrate life's simple, fleeting moments as openings to a sense of inter-being, presence and connectivity.
Photograph by @stasia.garraway
Sound design and video processing by @noahpred
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The complexities of invisible loss and recovery are explored here through layers of sound and moving image. The interplay of delays, reverb and light on water echoes moments when emotions and memories surface. The snagging footage aims to reflect the jarring discomfort of difficult feelings, while appreciating the beauty of this receptive, tender state.
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A grasping hand fails to find purchase on a digital flame of light. This piece juxtaposes the tangible and the virtual to examine the transient nature of existence and the enduring allure of the ethereal.
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‘I hope this message finds you well’ exposes the unsettling realities of deep fakes and surveillance culture, revealing the erasure of sex, democracy, and how it exposes collective trauma in our human landscape. Employing GAN faces and retina scans, the piece transforms the human form into a chilling embodiment of the techno-consensual era. Phenotype-faces merge into a single human entity that absorbs programmed emotions. Hypnotic eyes are wet with tech-gaze. Body-tech scans of the artist serve as reminders that we’re all unwilling subjects when we step outside. One can clearly sense the weight of political erasure, big money gaslighting, and the post-pandemic ‘shitification’ that underscores, numbs, and manipulates our thoughts and emotions. Ultimately, the message challenges and questions our perception of real human truths vs politico-digital manipulations merely disguised as manufactured proto-human aspirations.
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The Lichen Diaries is a new audio visual series created by the Canadian Berlin based artist Scott Monteith, best known under his stage name Deadbeat. The project utilizes data from both the growth and decay patterns of various lichen and fungi to drive a vast array of melodic and rhythmic sound generators resulting in hypnotic organic soundscapes, accompanied by a panorama of layered road movies from across the globe which invite the audience into a world of constantly undulating morphosis. In equal parts futurist and nostalgic, the Lichen Diaries is a powerful creative reflection of our interconnectedness to the wider world, in all its grandeur, beauty and occasional terror.
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An attempt to bring the accumulation of visual and aural saturation. A situation of wonder inside the saturated stimulus through layers of animated motions, glitched sounds, and crowded visual patterns. Feel free to explore and combine each layer and wander within the fog of saturation.
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TRIGON MIRROR is a work of visual poetry, adapted from CRYSTALLOGRAPHY by Christian Bök (a writer who has explored the crystal poetics of language itself).
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————— Turbulent winds can break off the fragile branches of a stellar crystal as it falls, and often the branches regenerate during the descent, but even after reaching the ground these fragments can suffer further modification: winds can disintegrate each crystal by abrading it against other crystals so that, when the fallen remnant comes to rest at last beneath the microscope of the observer, the specimen often bears little resemblance to the original particle formed high in the ionosphere.
A generative audio / AI reflection on Naomi Shihab Nye's poem, "Different Ways To Pray". End the genocide in Gaza.
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An exploration of the fluctuating and complex emotions of our digitally-driven world. Abstract glitch textures blend with figurative shapes and forms to convey feelings of anxiety, ecstasy, hope and self-doubt. Each emotion struggling to be heard amidst the digital chaos.
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An exploration of the fluctuating and complex emotions of our digitally-driven world. Abstract glitch textures blend with figurative shapes and forms to convey feelings of anxiety, ecstasy, hope and self-doubt. Each emotion struggling to be heard amidst the digital chaos.
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An exploration of the fluctuating and complex emotions of our digitally-driven world. Abstract glitch textures blend with figurative shapes and forms to convey feelings of anxiety, ecstasy, hope and self-doubt. Each emotion struggling to be heard amidst the digital chaos.
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Combining manipulated satellite imagery with sonified data sets, LXD-1 explores layers of complicity and non-compliance implied in surveillance, data extraction, and climate breakdown. The interactive, asynchronous convergence of audio-visual layers, when fully activated, invokes the overwhelming sensation of an accelerated lifetime’s planetary flux.
Using data sets commencing from the artist’s year of birth sonified with custom tools and accompanied by deliberately decimated images, can you decipher the territory implied by the map?
Beckoning viewers to confront their role in a world increasingly dependent on inscrutable data flows while undergoing profound ecological transformation, LXD-1 invokes the intersection of individual agency and collective responsibility amidst the ceaseless flux of our shared biosphere and the emerging technological systems reshaping it — with or without our consent.
Constructed with Sonification Tools developed by the artist for Manifest Audio: manifest.audio
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Ignis 2024
Web page including one channel full HD color video with sound (14 seconds), html, cms, png, txt, mp4
1920 × 1080 pixels
2024
In 'Ignis', seconds act as years. Originally made in 2021 while we still had 14 years to reach carbon neutrality or the point of no return (Paris Agreement's critical warming limit of 1.5° to prevent catastrophic impacts), 'Ignis 2024' depicts the recent scientific results showing 2029 is more likely to be the cut-off year.
With this series, Diane Drubay plays with colour psychology to create an immersion that is both fascinating and shattering. She takes the viewer into an idealized vision of a world where interference colours cover the sky, creating a subjugating sense of calm. But suddenly, a layer of unpredictability is introduced bringing a sense of discomfort and anxiety. The more seconds tick by, the more space is taken up by corrupted data visuals. Adding another level of storytelling, the sonification of the global CO2 emissions data guides us towards emotional dissonance, leaving us mute in the face of the unknown.
As you explore, the scientific texts begin to overlap, reminding us of this impression of information overload. At the end, the text is associated with a QR code inviting us to take action.
In her metamedia, she adds layers of understanding and a final call to action to turn these emotions into concrete impact.
Source: Lamboll, R.D., Nicholls, Z.R.J., Smith, C.J. et al. Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets. Nature Climate Change. 2023
Credits:
Concept & Art: Diane Drubay
Sonification and Sound Design: @noahpred
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Hypnotic Void of the Trance
We're getting bombarded by images, news, and doomsday missives. Messages about AI being at the forefront of the human descent into automated hell.
No-one can predict what will happen. Time will tell if technology will enslave or liberate us.
One thing is sure, though, the void has an hypnotic texture to it, its abyss staring right back at us.
somaticbits - HTML / CSS / MP4 / Text - 2024
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Draconis Kanbo, No. 163
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M3RR0R
Music and visuals by Portrait XO
AI chatbot voice trained by Thomash Haferlach
AI Personality designed by Portrait XO and Thomash Haferlach
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Solstice
Photograph by @stasia.garraway
Sound design and video processing by @noahpred
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While She Waits
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Collaged Hypnotics
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BIM Tree
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i hope this message finds you well
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Lichen Diaries vol. 1 (Meta Redux)
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22222 $enjoy organic soundscape layers 🤌Fog of Saturation
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TRIGON MIRROR
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Turbulent winds can break off the fragile branches of a stellar
crystal as it falls, and often the branches regenerate during the
descent, but even after reaching the ground these fragments
can suffer further modification: winds can disintegrate each
crystal by abrading it against other crystals so that, when the
fallen remnant comes to rest at last beneath the microscope
of the observer, the specimen often bears little resemblance
to the original particle formed high in the ionosphere.
bismillah
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Cache
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Echo
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22222 $enjoy love these layersConnection
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LXD-1
Using data sets commencing from the artist’s year of birth sonified with custom tools and accompanied by deliberately decimated images, can you decipher the territory implied by the map?
Beckoning viewers to confront their role in a world increasingly dependent on inscrutable data flows while undergoing profound ecological transformation, LXD-1 invokes the intersection of individual agency and collective responsibility amidst the ceaseless flux of our shared biosphere and the emerging technological systems reshaping it — with or without our consent.
Constructed with Sonification Tools developed by the artist for Manifest Audio: manifest.audio
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55555 $enjoy this is sick.