The Planet of Expanded Visions. Vasulka Live Archive / Augmented Interfaces. Ars Electronica festival

HORÁKOVÁ, Jana, Jiří MUCHA, Pavel SIKORA, Štěpán MIKLÁNEK, Dušan BAROK, Jennifer Ann HELIA DEFELICE, Zuzana VYŠŇOVÁ, Chamit ABDULVALIYEV and Jiří SCHIMMEL. The Planet of Expanded Visions. Vasulka Live Archive / Augmented Interfaces. Ars Electronica festival. 2022.

Basic information

• Original name: The Planet of Expanded Visions. Vasulka Live Archive / Augmented Interfaces. Ars Electronica festival
• Name in Czech: Planeta rozšířených pohledů. Vasulka Live Archive / augmentovaná rozhraní. Ars Electronica festival
• Authors: HORÁKOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jiří MUCHA (203 Czech Republic), Pavel SIKORA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Štěpán MIKLÁNEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Dušan BAROK (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Jennifer Ann HELIA DEFELICE (840 United States of America), Zuzana VYŠŇOVÁ (703 Slovakia), Chamit ABDULVALIYEV (398 Kazakhstan) and Jiří SCHIMMEL (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: 2022.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Holding (organization of) an exhibition (with or w/o a crit. cat.)
• Field of Study: 60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television
• Country of publisher: Austria
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Anotace výstavy v online katalogu festivalu.
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129557
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords (in Czech): umělá inteligence; archiv; video art; the Vasulkas; výstava; virtuální realita; rozhraní
• Keywords in English: artificial intelligence; archive; video art; the Vasulkas; exhibition; virtual reality; interfaces
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The exhibition took the form of an ecosystem of interfaces that make the content of the Steina and Woody Vasulka archive accessible in an innovative way. The title Planet of Augmented Visions refers to one of the leitmotifs of the creative practice of these pioneers of electronic arts – the development of technical extensions of the human perceptual apparatus. To do so, they used different optical devices (consisting of mirror spheres or mobile cameras), with an ambition to overcome the limitations of the human "point of view" and to replace them with "expanded visions", and "allvisions" of human-machine arrangements. The exhibits are results of an attend to design the novel ways of accessing and mediating the Vasulkas' archive content. They are epistemological tools made within an interdisciplinary research project devoted to the experimental application of machine learning in the service of video art historiography, analysis, and mediation. To this end, unique intelligent software for iconographic and audiographic analysis of the Vasulkas' videos were programmed and trained. As they display in real-time the visual and audio leitmotifs appearing in the videos of the Vasulkas, they serve as a means of performative mediation upon the poetics of the Vasulkas’ work. Thus, we declare the exhibition space to be a laboratory dedicated to an emerging discipline – the expanded iconology of the age of artificial intelligence (Emilly L. Spratt, 2017).

Links

• TL02000270, research and development project: Name: Media Art Live Archive: Inteligentní rozhraní pro interaktivní zprostředkování kulturního dědictví (Acronym: MediaArtLiveArchive)

Investor: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic