The New Men 2024
Materials: Aluminium, LED screens, Plexiglas, Analogue TVs, Coax cables, LLM agent, PC
Taking base in the Soviet techno-utopian visions, the installation connects a real-time generated sci-fi narrative with the cosmic noise picked-up by the aluminium antennae’s whose shapes are taken from the Soviet monument “To the Conquerors of Space”.
“The New Men” unfolds over three continuous acts, three timelines co-habitating with each other. The Past, the Present and the Future.
The Past is embodied through the signals traveling from the various points of the cosmos and bouncing off the aluminium surface of the metal silhouettes. Taking time to arrive on Earth they are always the messengers of what was before.
The Present is seen in the noise on the screens of analogue televisions encased in a plexiglas sphere. Analogue TV sets are connected to the aluminium antennae’s with coax cables and the static seen on their screens is a direct visualisation of the cosmic signal received by the antennae’s. Inside the sphere a webcam is observing the display of one of the TV sets.
The Future is seen in the gleeful and somewhat hypnotic scene of the endless sea and the setting sun glimmering through the lights of LED screens. Within this scene a language model is constructing an ongoing utopian novel. The program observes noise-signal from an analogue TV set through a webcam and from it it derives ever-changing numbers. Every 4 minutes the numbers connected to a pre-set library of actions change the direction of the story.
Photography by Ira Grünberger
Unity development, LLM integration and VFX by Ilya Doreanu
LLM training and Unity integration by Kevin Böhm
Technical design by Nick Mansveld
Asisstance with electronics by Zhao Zhou
Advice by Zalán Szakács
Supported by Stroom, Mondriaan fonds, Schemerlicht festival
Materials: Aluminium, LED screens, Plexiglas, Analogue TVs, Coax cables, LLM agent, PC
Taking base in the Soviet techno-utopian visions, the installation connects a real-time generated sci-fi narrative with the cosmic noise picked-up by the aluminium antennae’s whose shapes are taken from the Soviet monument “To the Conquerors of Space”.
“The New Men” unfolds over three continuous acts, three timelines co-habitating with each other. The Past, the Present and the Future.
The Past is embodied through the signals traveling from the various points of the cosmos and bouncing off the aluminium surface of the metal silhouettes. Taking time to arrive on Earth they are always the messengers of what was before.
The Present is seen in the noise on the screens of analogue televisions encased in a plexiglas sphere. Analogue TV sets are connected to the aluminium antennae’s with coax cables and the static seen on their screens is a direct visualisation of the cosmic signal received by the antennae’s. Inside the sphere a webcam is observing the display of one of the TV sets.
The Future is seen in the gleeful and somewhat hypnotic scene of the endless sea and the setting sun glimmering through the lights of LED screens. Within this scene a language model is constructing an ongoing utopian novel. The program observes noise-signal from an analogue TV set through a webcam and from it it derives ever-changing numbers. Every 4 minutes the numbers connected to a pre-set library of actions change the direction of the story.
Photography by Ira Grünberger
Unity development, LLM integration and VFX by Ilya Doreanu
LLM training and Unity integration by Kevin Böhm
Technical design by Nick Mansveld
Asisstance with electronics by Zhao Zhou
Advice by Zalán Szakács
Supported by Stroom, Mondriaan fonds, Schemerlicht festival
