Social experiments
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Artists and researchers use and question the latest scientific and technological advances to reinvent human relationships and bring people together. They invite you to think collectively about data protection issues, understand data exchanges, study the role of sound in hospitals and participate in collective and interactive performances.
BOOTH [NEF]
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 19:00NefSocial Experiments
Muted a fall through silence
By Christophe Monchalin in collaboration with the CONTENT4ALL project
Can the experience of silence be felt through VR? “Muted” is a virtual reality installation that tackles the subject of abandonment through the sensation of weightlessness and sign language. Based on Fraunhofer HHI capturing technology, “Muted” poetically reveals the story of an abandoned girl who invents her own language. The visitor is invited to fall into a dedicated VR environment in which choreographed sign language is expressed through a dancing avatar. The artistic challenge is to bring out emotions of movements in a sensitive way.
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 19:00NefSocial Experiments
Sleep in the City
By Walid Breidi & Virgile Novarina in collaboration with the Aarhus City Lab
Can our sleeping experience be shared in a smart city? In the Sleep in the City project, video streams are generated from the combination of data from multiple sources, including brainwaves of people sleeping in several places, as well as pollution and sound data. They are continuously changing in form and color, creating a contemplative experience about the richness of sleep involving citizens from all walks of life. This project invites us to reflect on the importance of sleep.
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 19:00NefSocial Experiments
Invisible Agency
by Stanza in collaboration with the ArtAntenna Project
Can we see the agency of invisible data waves surrounding us? Invisible Agency is one of a series of dynamic artistic data visualisation interfaces by Stanza connecting in real-time city spaces which are investigating data manipulation across distributed technology networks. The artwork creates an aesthetic experience that facilitates a new understanding of the networked data space. It demonstrates and discloses WiFi traffic as an electronic systems-based artwork.
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 19:00NefSocial Experiments
Artificial Intelligence and its false lies
by Mika Satomi and the CONFIRM Research Center
Would you rather be an Artificial Intelligence? In this residency, the artist and CONFIRM researchers together explore the alternative scenarios, constructions and embodiment of AI: an Artificial Neural Network embroidered on a garment that (machine) learns from the wearer. In this scenario you are not a part of big data but an individual passing on your work skills and knowledge to an AI. Your workwear/ uniform will become your apprentice that in future will take your place and perform your tasks... just like you do.
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 19:00NefSocial Experiments
Data Union Fork
A workshop by Larisa Blazic in collaboration with the DECODE Project
What if citizens could go on a digital strike? Based on the DECODE project providing blockchain technology for decentralised ownership and control of data, Data Union Fork has been developed through a series of panels and workshops with citizens, designers, thinkers and activists around the notion of collective bargaining. The result of this work is presented as an installation that the audience can connect to and use for collective mobilisation. Discover the installation in the booth area and take part in the collective bargaining workshop.
PERFORMANCES [SALLE 200]
Saturday 14:00 & Sunday 14:30Salle 200Social Experiments
Beyond Absolute
A performance by Reiko Yamada in collaboration with the LUCA project, with Ilona Schneider (soprano)
What if we could open new channels of communication between physicians and their patients? Using the LUCA device, an innovative technology designed to diagnose thyroid cancer, the artist transforms each consultation into a unique soundscape that combines physiological data gathered by the physician and impressions drawn from the patient's subjective experience. This presentation of “Beyond Absolute” features a selection of these soundscapes that will be performed by a singer moving among, and engaging with the audience.
Saturday 18:30Salle 200Social Experiments
Constella(c)tions
A performance by Michelle Agnès Magalhaes in collaboration with Benjamin Matuszewski and Frederic Bevilacqua (BeCoMe Project, ISMM Team) and the musicians from SoundInitiative.
Can smartphones become collective performance devices? Creating alternative uses of our mobile technologies, Constella(c)tions proposes a musical experience built out of physical and metaphorical connections between performers and the public. An artistic proposition to repurpose smartphones as collective musical instruments, where the audience can engage actively in the performance.
WORKSHOPS & ROUNDTABLES [AT7]
Sunday 14:00AT7Social Experiments
Random Beauty
By Ali Tocher & Joe Acheson in collaboration with the Sound for Coma Project
Could we design music for accompanying coma? The Random Beauty residency addresses an unknown problem in hospitals: the bad quality of the sound environment, and its impact on the recovery of the patients. Random Beauty is an app through which the hospital caretakers can implement a never-ending, ever-evolving soundscape whose sounds and patterns are designed to measurably support the patients along the path to recovery.
Sunday 15:30AT7Social Experiments
Smoking Gun
A workshop by fanSHEN in collaboration with the Data Stories Project
Smoking Gun takes a playful and interactive approach to explore the power of data in the age of disinformation. It’s a thriller which unfolds via your phone, placing you at the heart of a potential whistleblower scandal. You solve puzzles, scrutinize videos, follow clues, chat about it online with other players. But as your investigations take you deeper, it’s hard to know who and what to trust…
Sunday 16:45AT7Social Experiments
Data Union Fork
A workshop by Larisa Blazic in collaboration with the DECODE Project
What if citizens could go on a digital strike? Based on the DECODE project providing blockchain technology for decentralised ownership and control of data, Data Union Fork has been developed through a series of panels and workshops with citizens, designers, thinkers and activists around the notion of collective bargaining. The result of this work is presented as an installation that the audience can connect to and use for collective mobilisation. Discover the installation in the booth area and take part in the collective bargaining workshop.