E 2022

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

HORÁKOVÁ, Jana; Jiří MUCHA; Pavel SIKORA; Štěpán MIKLÁNEK; Dušan BAROK et. al.

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; Jiří MUCHA; Pavel SIKORA; Štěpán MIKLÁNEK; Dušan BAROK; Jennifer Ann HELIA DEFELICE; Zuzana VYŠŇOVÁ; Chamit ABDULVALIYEV and Jiří SCHIMMEL

Edition

2022

Other information

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

References:

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
Changed: 4/1/2023 10:05, doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.

Abstract

In the original language

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
Displayed: 29/11/2025 02:37