“Atmoscape” by Dennis Del Favero
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Title:
- Atmoscape
Artist(s) and People Involved:
- Stephen Sewell
- Jeffrey Shaw
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- City University Hong Kong
- Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie
- ZKM
- Elwira Titan
- Peter Weibel
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- Centre for Art and Media (ZKM)
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Creation Year:
- 2016
Medium:
- Interactive artificially intelligent experimental film
Artist Statement:
Adapted from Lenz by Georg Buchner
Atmoscape is an experimental cinematic adaptation of the 1835 novella Lenz by George Buchner. Atmoscape interactively accompanies the protagonist as he traverses a spectrum of interconnected dream worlds generated through an Artificially Intelligent particle visualisation system, ranging from worlds composed by the microscopic particles of his body, through to worlds created by the macroscopic particles of the atmosphere as he floats 30,000 kilometres above the earth.
Buchner, best known for his revolutionary drama Woyzeck, was also a biologist and one of the first scientists to argue that all things are interconnected, constituted as they are by the same primary matter, namely particles.
Atmoscape interactively accompanies the protagonist as he traverses a spectrum of interconnected dream worlds generated through an Artificially Intelligent particle visualisation system, ranging from worlds composed by the microscopic particles of his body, through to worlds created by the macroscopic particles of the atmosphere as he floats 30,000 kilometres above the earth. Each world a door that opens unexpectedly onto the next.
Experimental Study component of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant
ARC Discovery Grant Investigators: Dennis Del Favero, Jill Bennett, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel, Ursula Frohne, Johnny Chan with Som Guan, Volker Kuchelmeister, Rob Lawther, Alex Ong, Steven Sherwood.
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ISEA 2016 HK from Digital Media Centre on Vimeo.
