Patryk Lichota - LASERSPACE - dance (with Lumen Art and Anna Kamińska)
7 Mediations Biennale Polska 2020 – Events Horizon
opening: 1.10.2020. 19.00 pm Cukry Praga
Laserspace – a digital performance in which the body is extended to a dynamically changing laser body – filling the entire room. The space will be defined by external lasers – drawing dynamic visual forms, synchronized with the costume in real time – all in order to show the physical dimension of reality as its mathematical metaphor. The labile, fluctuating “laser body” is confronted here with the precision of the geometry of virtual space.
Andrzej Fasiecki - Akcelerator - Instalacja
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon
1.10.2020 – 7 pm – Cukry Praga
2.10.2020 – 7 pm – District Hall Warsaw
The Accelerator installation, although it refers to the latest achievements in science and technology, is built in a primitive way, close to fetishes created by creators from native cultures. The naivety of the structure and the banality of the material used strengthens the spiritual message and shows that this fetish of the medium allows you to become familiar with an incomprehensible part of the world.
Andrzej Fasiecki
Payal Kapadia - And What is the Summer - video
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon
1.10.2020 – 7 pm – Cukry Praga
2.10.2020 – 7 pm – District Hall Warsaw
Experimental documentary And What is the Summer Saying had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale Shorts, 2018). It went on to receive the Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (2018) and the Promod Pati Prize for the Most Experimental film at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF, 2020). Kapadia’s experimental short The Last Mango Before Monsoon was premiered at Oberhausen International Film Festival (2015), where she was awarded FIPRESCI Prize and Special Jury Prize.
Rafał Szrajber - Wersja robocza - video
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry
Weiming Ho - Sythetic Force
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon
1.10.2020 – 7 pm – Cukry Praga
2.10.2020 – 7 pm – District Hall Warsaw
“Synthetic Force” The force is tried to manifest a vibration and spectrum as an audible and visible object – audio visual meditation. Is there any invisible or subliminal field variant of the system?
Weiming Ho
Andreas Guskos - Fractals - digital video and VR
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry
Mathematical objects such as fractals exist in the world beyond time and physical space, they can create three-dimensional, dynamic forms that are infinitely complex. There is also a virtual space between the elements. The projection of Andreas Guskos work “Fractals” has coincidentialy exposed holes in the damaged wall, which absorbed fragments of the image, transferring them into a physical, undefined depth. The the hole remained a black hole, a lack in the constantly multiplying digital reality of fractals.. Until today, probably no one has asked themselves whether fractals have holes through which their elements leak into other dimensions of reality? The video projection, along with the destroyed wall, provided such a visual thesis.
Tomasz Wendland
Chien-Chi Chang - The War That Never Was
Single-channel video, 15’40”, 2017
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry
This interview-based video centered on Chang’s mother, whose whole life was merely to work for a meager survival. The questions about her life were juxtaposed with the timeline of the historical events unfolded during the Cold War. The latter takes on the form of historical images derived from the Iron Curtain Museum in Hungary and the Magnum Photos archives, interlaced with the interview with Chang’s mother who has never heard of the Cold War.
Ya-Lung Tao - Wandering Ghost - Taling Tower VR installation
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – District Hall Warsaw
Hydronarracje, instalacja multimedialna, 2020, Kolektyw Przepływ
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
As residents of the so-called ‘In the developed city’, we turn on the tap from which the water flows, we drink it, wash the dishes, do the washing. We take the fact that water simply exists at our beck and call and serves our human goals for granted. When
eating cereal with milk, we do not think that at the same time the CEO of Nestle corporation calls access to drinking water for everyone an extremely radical idea. While brushing our teeth with an electric toothbrush, we do not deliberate on the fact that the activity of an opencast coal mine 100 km away has just sucked the last drop of the Noteć River. Finally, while enjoying avocados, we do not calculate how many liters of water to add to the 227 needed to grow one fruit to determine its water footprint, taking into account the transport from Chile.
Who does the water belong to? Who and what is it for? Who and how regulates its flow? To answer these questions, we looked into the pipes and waterworks of Aquanet SA. We went out into deep water with prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, an outstanding hydrologist
researching the relationship between climate and water resources. Valuable scientific knowledge was also shared by Dr. Iwona Pińskwar from the Institute of Agricultural and Forest Environment. We visited the Ship of Culture, looking at the extremely close and intimate relations between the crew and the river and the shallows. We plunged into apnea in the amazing stories of Kolektyw Nurkowy Bojka about underwater worlds, eco-feminist activist involvement and mutual concern.
We went with the stream of rural life with Ewa and Wiktor, who showed the effects of drought in their fields and talked about the experience of agricultural work in the time of the climate crisis. We lost the ground under our feet by examining the water from the “miraculous spring” on Żydowska Street in Poznań, which, as Kamil Cajmer said, contains elements of anti-Semitism. Finally, we experienced a bioenergotherapeutic bath, absorbing the knowledge from Mr. Władysław Iwanek from the Department of Radiesthetic and Electromagnetic Services. The Flow Collective (Julia Dąbrowska, Zuzanna Popiel, Alessandre Kalinueva, Anna Blanka Dulny-Leszczyńska, Magda Pierzchała, Marysia Żukowska, Patryk Lichota, Justyna Dziabaszewska)
VIR Gallery, Ferrytale, electromagnetic installation
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
What do electromagnetic waves emitted by everyday devices inaudible to the human ear sound? Thanks to the FerryTale project by @VIR Gallery, you have a chance to listen to the singing of these devices and more! The virtual art gallery VIR Gallery, established as a project of UAM’s students in Poznań, invites you to its first exhibition in physical space. PS: If you are interested in what your own device sounds like, don’t hesitate to
bring it to the exhibition. We invite you!
Arek Marcinkowski
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
Gabriel Mestre Arrioja
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – District Hall Warsaw
In this short film, Arrioja examines the dream left by Carlos Castaneda – a false ethnography who proposed a path of self-development in the 1960s and 1970s by returning to the teachings of the shamans of primitive peoples. The film tells how we try to use our body through dance, scarification, meditation and voice.
Harro Schmidt - Instalacja video
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
Harro D.B. Schmidt’s group of works Crossing The Universe is an installative experimental setup, which could also be described as a walk-in laboratory situation. With the background knowledge of two diplomas in geology, paleontology and free art, there are always natural scientific aspects in his artistic work. Thus, the group of works uses various analog and digital apparatuses from natural science and their imagery. Through an experimental set-up, consisting of overhead projectors with respective flow vessels, various objects rotating in the water on their own axis. Their projected images allow different levels of interpreta-tion: visitors may observe molecular structures as well as moving ornamental geometry or space stations.
Fan Bo - China B2: Four worlds, Installation (200*114cm*4), 2017
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
I cannot imagine the fight this work would have to fight with the “neutral” space of a white cube, with which it would most likely fail. Here, she absorbed the entire space, entering into a dialogue with it and sharing with the viewer the multitude of meanings hidden in the environment. I was looking through the eyes of a blind man who read Braille and in the mirror of an image of the work he was re-learning his reality.
Tomasz Wendland
Hui-Yu Su - The Midnight Hours
Stilnox Home Video| 21 mins | 2010
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
I once had a special encounter with Stilnox, a kind of sleeping pill, by chance. Inspired by this experience, I created this video piece to express the unusual sensations I felt when watching TV after taking pills. One evening, after taking Stilnox, I forgot that I should stay in bed, and soon entered a world without sleep. Augmented by Stilnox, the TV images brought unprecedented visual impacts on me. TV and Medicine, two common elements in life, subverted themselves outside the box on one unexpected night. And I, by accident, became fascinated by them.
Yin-Ju Chen, Extrastellar Evaluations III: Entropy: 25800
Video 17 mins | 2018
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
An extravagant film that appears as a message from outer space. A cryptic cocktail of thermodynamic laws, mythologies and extra-stellar intelligence. Chen Yin-Ju’s primary medium is video, but she also works with photos, installation and drawing. Her recent projects explore the relationship between the cosmos and human behavior
Yin-Ju Chen is known for her occultist approach to the imagination of the future using hypotheses and prophecies founded upon a choreography of fragments of history, as well as mass media imagery and information.
Extrastellar Evaluations III: Entropy: 25800 is another attempt by the artist to reveal when exactly Doomsday takes place, through an investigationof the Great Year, or the period of one complete cycle of the spring equinox around the ecliptic. A cycle of the Great Year is 25,800 years, a number that has been derived not only from NASA’s calculations, but also from several ancient mytholo–gies and legends.
The doomsday narrative unfolds in this exhibition through a seemingly logical scientific perspective, urging the viewer to see the reality that confronts human-kind. Just as the non-human intelligence Ra elucidates the philosophy of Taiyi: the origin of all beings is the universe; human behavior and civilization as an unseen hand shapes the universe.
Izabela Chamczyk - about
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
A living image created with the use of video, the basic medium o which is the body and its STATES OF FOCUS (title taken from the exhibition at the Entropia Gallery in 2012, where the video was presented). It is a picture abour growing up, femininity, about the stages in a woman’s life. About its strenghts and its shortcomings. About the situations in which she find herself and from which she falls. Marynia Fekecz, Natalia Hakuna Turocha, Paulina R, Joanna Wiśniewska.
Liu Ke - Good Life
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
This is a tragic event: The isolation hotel in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province suddenly collapsed at 19:30 on March 7, 2020. Many people were crushed underneath. A family from Huangshi, Hubei, father, mother, 7-year-old daughter, 5 years old, Two and a half-year-old sons died at the same time when they were
only 12 hours before the end of quarantine. The mother’s Douyin(Tik Tok) has been playing pictures of children playing in the hotel these days. People have been reduced to ashes, only the image of “good life” remains in the vibrato,
and likes and comments are still continuing.
only 12 hours before the end of quarantine. The mother’s Douyin(Tik Tok) has been playing pictures of children playing in the hotel these days. People have been reduced to ashes, only the image of “good life” remains in the vibrato,
and likes and comments are still continuing.
Anna Klimczak i Tomasz Miśkiewicz
'Landscreen' interactive facility
sound: Jerzy Klimczak
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
‘Landscreen’ is a minimalist object that uses a smartphone display. The project adresses the problem of influence of new technologies on the way of displaying the visual image, as well as the perception of nature as a distant message about reality. The starting point was the landscape photography. Thanks to the interaction in real time, the viewer can influence the work and create individual perception and dynamics of the picture. The screen is a suggestion of a window through which the viewer can observe the view of the world as when traveling, e.g. traveling by train. The work was also inspired by social media, which provide unlimited access to visual information and social contacts, and at the same time function thanks to the isolation of the viewer.
Tzu-An Wu - Moon Phrases / Solar Eclipses
Total duration 2′ 46”
2018 Solar Eclipses 1’02”.16mm,
Moon Phrases 1’44”,16mm
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – Cukry Praga
Moon Phrases and Solar Eclipse are both film frame by frame, manually with 16mm Bolex camera. I make myself as the extension of the camera, to control the exposure time by mind. The images produced are also reflections of the time and the mind. These two works are one set of installation, in the form of double screen with two loops: The left channel is a digital projection of a video edited with the lab processed and scanned file. The right channel is a 16mm projection in a loop, this version used the same material but hand edited, contact printed and hand processed. The double screen presentation is not only a cross reference between the digital and the analogue, but also meant to present the resonance and the time difference between the two channels.
I-Chun CHEN - Chapter Eleven: Hidden Confessions of Archeologists – Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? 2016 Film
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – Cukry Praga
In the world created by artist, everyone wants to be a white-collar worker, and no one want’s to be a blue-collar worker working in a factory. In order to achieve everyone’s dream, the world’s most durable robots have been introduced by the government. However it caused the war between white-collar people and blue-collar robots, and finally destroyed the both of them. Archeological research done by the other galaxies has revealed that people have perished away from the Earth long time ago. The aim of this investigation is to name the reasons of their disappearance.
Alicja Kwade - Cooperative Phenomenon (Fundamental Force)
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
Materials such as a plate of glass, mirrors, a sheet of steel, a plank of wood, bend upwards to different degrees and are rising to- wards a circle around an imaginary centre. Under normal circumstances it would be impossible for the material to behave in this way. What comes to the foreground here are those everyday physical laws we hold to be normal—the functioning of the world and its disruption.
Aroosa Rana - Quddus Mirza on View Within 2020
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – Cukry Praga
Like inter-textuality for writers, ‘inter-visuality’ for Aroosa Rana is a major concern, as viewed in her new artwork “View Within”. Rana provides a passage to approach reality – through a number of interfaces, which mediate between physical presence and its representation: two entities that in our times have blended to such an extent that it is difficult to distinguish subject, and spectator. Rana’s work created with multiple layers of images investigates the perception and presence of familiar ‘reality’.
Gregor Hidlebrandt, Du stehst im Licht, Du stehst im Schatten (You are standing in the light, you are standing in the shadow)
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
The work Du stehst im Licht, Du stehst im Schatten (You are standing in the light,
you are standing in the shadow) refers to a scene from the 1948 film “Bicycle
Thieves” by Vitorio de Sica. Desperate to lose his stolen bicycle, Antonio, the
film’s protagonist, goes to a fortune teller, who he believes will help him find it.
Kuei-Pi Li - Diamond Dream
Single Channel Video | Color | 9 mins
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – Cukry Praga
In 1906, the image of Apsara appeared for the first time in the Colonial Exposition of Marseille and drew the attention of artists at the time.In the 20th century, Apsara became a cultural symbol which represents the colonial plundering in Cambodia. There is often a paradoxical gray zone between replica and the authentic, not only because of the innovation of replication technology, but also the political implications behind it. On the Diamond Island led by the Chinese, there is also a replica of the French city, named after the “Élysée Palace”, the official residence of the French president. The artist tried to replicate the Cambodian dance that once performed in the real Paris in a replica of a Paris building, in order to commemorate the colonial history and the stampede that once happened on Diamond Island.
Poonewala - Circle of Life - video
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
Poonawalla’s work, Circle of Life, is a 3 minute 36 seconds digital video, produced in 2020. The work takes the viewer on a journey through their subconscious mind, encouraging them to identify their memories and address how the elements in the film and real life, affect and challenge these memories. Whilst still incorporating Poonawalla’s butterfly motif, a symbol which denotes freedom and the fragility and metamorphoses of life, the film follows on from Poonawalla’s recent body of work as a filmmaker, to address ongoing global issues through an immersive, multi-sensory experience.
Portrayed as a journey, the butterflies take us on a flight into our subconscious mind. The film starts with calm images of tree bark, oceans and plant leaves — depicting our early growth and development — before becoming more frenzied to reference more challenging situations and circumstances. The imagery changes to blood red flowers, the oceans turn to desert sands, and we see a tangle of knotted tree roots reflecting more painful experiences, routes and options as our lives become more complex. Finally the work ends in a calmer and stiller period of life, as the ocean turns to ice.
Text: Hansika Lohani Mehtani | https://www.platform-mag.com/art/the-mediations-biennale.html
Rabia Ajaz, A Still Descen
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – Cukry Praga
The title of the show “A Still Descent”, something that the artist Rabia Ajaz had conceived in the early part of this year, proved almost prescient. It was planned to open mid-March but was delayed till this week, as life, as we knew it, suddenly stopped in its tracks and became still. And Rabia’s works with solitary flowers now seem like symbols of ‘isolation’ that has since become proverbial.
They say it takes effort for a person to write, even if for themselves and yet journaling is fast becoming popular in our times and regarded as therapeutic, just as mindfulness gains traction. But it takes courage to offer your writing to the world, as you put yourself out there to be scrutinized, and thus lose autonomy on your innermost thoughts. One could argue that its just the opposite for most artists, whose prim gallery shows don’t let on, or offer even an inclination of what goes on behind the scenes-outside the sanitized white cube.
Text: Fatma Shah | https://www.thefridaytimes.com/a-still-descent-reexamining-reality/
David Rodriguez Gimeno
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
Centrum jako pojęcie definiowane jest
pośrednio, w odniesieniu do tego, co je
otacza. Z tego powodu jawi się ono jako
coś niedostępnego, nie tylko dlatego,
że odnosi się do czegoś innego, ale
dlatego, że znajduje się na innej
płaszczyźnie niż ta, której używamy
do jej określenia. Panorama
tworzy przestrzeń wokół miejsca, w którym się ją tworzy.
Dlatego nie tylko definiuje
obserwowany obiekt, lecz
także określa punkt, z którego
jest on oglądany, w taki sam
sposób, w jaki położenie
określa się przez związki przestrzenne ze znanymi punktami
orientacyjnymi na horyzoncie
lub gwiazdami na niebie.
Film Movement nº1 nakręcony został na Antarktydzie i jest to pierwsza część serii trzech prac poświęconych
geometrii i pamięci miejsca.
Qasim Riza Shaheen - Autoportraits in love-like conditions - video
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
Autoportraits in love-like conditions includes performance, film, photography, audio recordings, drawings and mixed media, and features new commissions produced by Shaheen over a 12-month period spent in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. It will focus on silent tales of love and the connections between people, while exploring simulated moments of intimacy with strangers through imagery and role-play. Full or partial exhibition available for touring 2020/21.
Feng Feng - Keep Smiling - Videos 2020
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
Regarding the exhibition in Poland in October, there are two plans: 1. The video work “Keep Smiling 2020” requires 40 flat-screen TVs for 40 video clips, 20 of which are smiling videos of Chinese youth students, and the other 20 are local residents in Poland’s smiling video. Prof Feng Feng would like to ask you a favor for these 20 video clips, and he will directed local volunteers to complete the work if it is possible.
If there are not 40 TVs, we can chooseplan 2:He hopes to recruit 40 volunteers in Poland, remotely controlled and directed by the artist to implement performance art.
Fan Bo, B2: Four worlds Installation (200*114cm*4) 2017
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – Cukry Praga
The work is filled with countless ready-made prints, which also serve as a daily record for people without visual perception. These ready-made prints were collected by Fan Bo through the tracking of countless families without visual perception, bringing recording”Notes” in braille, such as recipes, lyrics, addresses, telephone numbers, beliefs, poems and so on. These papers come from various publications, magazines, pictures, daily political texts, real estate sales books and other printed materials at the same time.
The content of printed materials is just a reflection of the urbanization process in the locality.Although it is only a basic presentation of living materials for people without visual perception ability, it can be seen from the materials that they use to process information in their life, reflecting the era, although for them, it only has a simple paper function. Braille itself and the information printed on the paper belong to two worlds, and there is no relation between the two. What is important is that the two worlds meet here.
For the viewer,the process of viewing the work itself will separate the meeting of the two worlds again. In all of these images, the connection between the image and the braille is visible.The link formed by this work simultaneously becomes a field for multiple reading. Here, the viewing reader and the touching reader can understand the existing spectacle provided by the works through the dual reading system established in the works, and can also reconstruct the spectacle and reconstruct their own imagination.
This autonomous rewriting and variable combination of texts enable reading to travel through two different cognitive systems. How can we imagine in a text, write through imagination! In this work, visual rewriting and reconstruction can overlap braille texts and spectacle imagination, so that different cognitive systems can break the original cognitive boundaries, which is the method that Fan bo experimented.
kakofoNIKT & Chór Pogłosy
Chór Pogłosy & Tomasz Citak String Ensemble – Pieśni Kurpiowskie
2.10.2020 | District Hall Warsaw, 7 pm
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – 2020
The Pogłosy Choir and the chamber string orchestra conducted by Sykula (Joanna Sykulska) invite you to a recital of traditional Kurpie songs arranged by Tomasz Citak. The direct inspiration to create a repertoire in the above constellation was the Kurpiowski Songbook by Henryk Gadomski. The concert program will include carefully selected the most beautiful songs from the Kurpie region. The song arrangements respect the folk melodies in an unchanged form, with the original spelling and pronunciation. The minimalist and completely acoustic form of the concert corresponds to the simplicity and deep expression of the song. The moving white voices in the string company will take the listeners to the heart of the forest, which is still a vibrant source of tradition.
Ewa Doroszenko - Imagine yourself on an island in the middle of the ocean
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Horyzont Zdarzeń – District Hall Warsaw
The film inspired by virtual landscapes presents one of the ways in which we try to achieve a state of internal balance in the age of information overload. Despite technological advances, virtualization and digitization of reality, or maybe because of them, we are looking for spiritual rituals and practices that will allow us to reach a state of deep awareness or at least simulate it. In the project, I used a text written by me, prepared on the basis of popular meditations conducted on the YouTube channel, listening to which is to help in the relaxation process.
Jacek Doroszenko – The same horizon repeated at every moment of the walk
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – District Hall Warsaw
Man’s abilities as an individual are limited by the principles of body structure and the environment in which he functions. A film made during an artist-in-residence in Barcelona shows this simple property. The concept of the film is based on the phenomenon of pitch, which makes it possible to sort individual tones on a scale resulting from their frequency, from the lowest to the highest. The composition of the frame consists of four equal shots, in which the head of the moving figure determines the appropriate pitch of the sound on a vertical scale assigned to each shot. This aleatoric quartet reveals the composer’s specific approach, in which the basic, seemingly chaotic relationships between the elements of the composition are completely determined by the random position of the performer.
Zhang Jianhua – Bez tytułu – rzeźby
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – District Hall Warsaw
Zhang Jianhua is a Chinese artist working in public space. His sculptures, shown many times in China and Europe, will present people who have come to Shanghai for a better life. They are a portrait of our aspirations, a desire for a better life and a sign of the times. These people are pioneers, they should give us courage that a better tomorrow is possible. Standing in the Venture Cafe space, they are silent witnesses of our hard work towards a better tomorrow. In the past, to raise your standard of living it was enough to move from the countryside to the city, today the next step requires innovative gestures and movements.
Jarema Drogowski – Adam 2020 – instalacja cyfrowa
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – District Hall Warsaw
Adam 2020 is to be the first representative of the new man, the inept prototype of the collective thought of the entire planet Earth. His brain is a sketch reflecting the neural network of the global organism. The brain of Adam 2020 is a program with access to popular news services: CNN and BBC, which are updated at regular intervals. Moreover, Adam has implemented the Bible in his memory and a collection of readings with over one hundred and forty philosophical items. He remembers the works of such thinkers as Freud, Žižek, Lacan, Hegel, Nietzsche and many others.
The fourth set of data is Adam’s memory, which records all utterances spoken. Each data set has a priority that is determined by a complex algorithm. Based on the collected data and the factor that determines the mood, the algorithm – using the so-called Markov chain generates short sentences with the use of various data sets. Adam’s mood is determined, among other things, by the price of gold on the stock exchange. It is a factor that clearly defines social moods based on the values dictated by the generally understood capitalism. In times of crisis, the price of gold rises, while in times of prosperity, gold loses value. It is in Adam’s brain a reflection of global mood as seen through the prism of the economy. Another factor influencing the content and manner of Adam’s speech is the atmospheric pressure in the area where he is. Adam’s verbosity is also determined by the solar wind measurement taken from the NASA website.
Koen Vanmehelen – Decode
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – District Hall Warsaw
In the video, people representing the different countries that make up the diversity of the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project read aloud the series of letters and numbers that make up the book. This Book of Genomes presents the unique DNA of the Cosmopolitan Chicken.
The chicken genome contains over a billion nucleotides, consisting of the four letters of the DNA alphabet. Arranged in a specific order, they form a code of sorts. For each of the chickens tested in the Kosmopolitan Chicken Project, the DNA sequence was compared to a scientific standard, and the genetic diversity was marked when the chicken DNA sequence was different.
The letters in the book indicate any site where the genetic makeup differs from the reference chicken genome considered standard, and the number indicates the number of DNA bases that are identical to those in the standard reference genome.
With each successive generation, markers of diversity increased. In 20 years of crossbreeding, the Vanmechelen project amassed the most diverse datapool of the chicken genome.
Ibrahim Quraishi - Radius 1 & 2 - (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) -
7 Mediations Biennale Polska – Events Horizon – District Hall Warsaw
Radius 1 & 2 are shot to transform reality into a series of fictional surreal orders from their own literal and over wrought heaviness. Above the ground, sailing through the factual, fictional necessity of our current military conflicts and rebellions that are raging from places as far as Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and Iraq. These images only discern a sense of tranquility through the prism of a serene silence and an aerial parody, where the notion of life is presented in terms of pure abstraction and calmness. In these supposedly cordoned off terrains of our un-named anonymous secret military villages, bases and compounds comes across as vast contrasts to the crusting gruelling Arabian Desert, to be witnessed by an occasional car chase, like a clichéd Hollywood thriller .
