Marrakesh Unfiltered

Arab Media Lab, Marrakesh, Morocco
Curator: Abdelaziz Taleb
Solo show
http://www.arabmedialab.org/

Arab Media Lab, Marrakesh

Workshop: Art with user-generated content

In this hands-on workshop, we learned possibilities and limitations of using user-generated content (UGC) for participants' own art projects. In a laboratory setting, this workshop provided an introduction to the artistic use of digital media and an opportunity for participants to experiment with new media. We have worked with open source software and explored artistic strategies in the field of processual and networked art.

Part of the workshop at the Arab Media Lab, we created “Marrakech Unfiltered”, a net-based installation. On TikTok we researched what Marrakech really looks like and what it thinks. What are the people of Marrakech really saying? What ideas and concerns they're addressing and projecting? We formulated questions, which appear in large letters in front of the TikTok posts like: Does social media help to keep our traditions? Ramadan: eat or dance? How social media change our behavior in choosing travel destination?

Arab Media Lab, Marrakesh

Arab Media Lab, Marrakesh

Exhibited Artwork

Unfiltered – TikTok and the Emerging Face of Culture

Net-Based Multi Screen Installation

With unprecedented and ever increasing access to mobile phones and the internet, digital hierarchies are being broken. Platforms like TikTok are the new town hall, with ‘influence’ no longer restricted to the urban elite. What have been the missing voices within mainstream narratives? Can their messages truly help shape an inclusive, socially conscious future? What impact does positive content more …

Reithalle, St. Moritz

SPACE10, New Delhi

SPACE10, New Delhi

Used to Be My Home Too

Real-time cartography

This experiment shows photos of animals, fungi and plants that are uploaded right now by unknown users to iNaturalist.org via mobile phone. On Google Earth, these are mapped at the exact location where they were photographed. In addition, taxonomically similar species that occurred in the same country and became extinct within the last 30 years are automatically added in real time via RedList.org. Used more …

Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

G.MAP, Gwangju

CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

Non-Places

16-Channel Video Installation, 16 x HD 1080p 4'30'' Stereo

Non-Places deals with urbanization and globalization in the digital age. In the synchronized videos, the user moves through visual worlds posted publicly by others on social networks such as Flickr, Freesound, Twitter and YouTube. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a virtual journey in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and similarities. more …

Galerie b, Stuttgart

Galerie b, Stuttgart

E-Werk, Freiburg

10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different, Mobile App

Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different, Mobile App is an interactive web-based app for smartphones and tablets. With this app you can see and hear what's happening in real-time around the world. An endless flow of countless stories. You experience how our world is constantly changing and how more and more places are becoming non-places, as described in Marc Augé’s book and essay Non-places. more …

User Interface

Synthesis Gallery, Berlin

Cairotronica, Cairo

MORE AND LESS - flying through a three-dimensional Book

Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

A project by Markus Kirchhofer, Shervin Saremi and Marc Lee Since a couple of years, for the first time, more people live in urban than in rural areas. Within the 21st century, more than ten billion people will inhabit the earth. People need more space, animal habitats are being threatened, several species are becoming extinct. How do we deal with this constellation? Since 1950, the urban more …

Screenshot MORE AND LESS

Motorenhalle, Dresden

HEK, Basel

Friends

Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

In December 2018, NVIDIA shook the world by showing how easily Artificial Intelligence can create ultra-realistic portraits of people who do not exist. Friends leverages the results of this research and offers an immersive experience experimenting with the massive amount of AI-generated content. By using a mobile phone, countless faces are generated and stare at the user from any direction. more …

PRE livepool, Hangzhou

Screenshot, Mobile App

Kunstverein Friedrichshafen

Time to Nest Time to Migrate

Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations

With this 360° New Media Art Mobile VR App Time to Nest Time to Migrate you fly through your own inner world. What happens in there? Bacteria, cells, fungi, parasites, phages, protists, prions, viruses communicate. Do they determine what we are? Not scientific, but rather fake scientific, philosophical and emergency poetically. (We know that we know nothing, we know). A little dance of life and more …

HEK, Basel

Reithalle, St. Moritz

HEK, Basel