Mesh Festival of Art and Technology
Freilager-Platz 3, Basel, SwitzerlandCurator: Sabine Himmelsbach, Nina Liechti
Artists: Sissel Marie Tonn, Marc Lee, Niculin Baradun, Dries Depoorter, S()fia Braga, Cream on Chrome, Eloïse Vo, OVVO Studio, Immersive Arts Space/ZHdK (Chris Elvis Leisi and Chris Salter), Christian Schumacher, Iris QU Xiaoyu, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Gordan Savičić & Selena Savić, Paranormal Investigator (Lena-Maria Stupitzky & Nick Förster), Tools for Change
Mesh Festival, Basel
About
Mesh is a new festival for digital art and technology. The first edition will take place from 16 - 20 October 2024 around the Freilager-Platz in Basel and Münchenstein.
Art and technology in dialogue
The accelerating technological developments of recent years (e.g. artificial intelligence, mixed reality and robotics) are opening up new opportunities for artists to realise their ideas. They work closely with technologists and scientists to conceive and realise their works. Many exciting works in recent years have been created through the interplay of different disciplines.
And what does this collaboration look like? How does technology shape art? Or vice versa: how is technology driven by artistic work?
Mesh is dedicated to these questions and visualises them using impressive artistic works. It addresses social and societal contexts and shows various connections between culture, education and industry.
Tools for a better future
The first festival edition takes place under the title "Tooling the Future". It is dedicated to the question of new or different tools for shaping a friendly future.
From the vision of an AI city to transcending planetary boundaries, our world is becoming more connected and intertwined every day. With powerful tools such as artificial intelligence, texts, images or entire environments can be created with the click of a computer key. Advances in quantum computing promise to solve previously unsolvable computer problems. But what kind of solutions and spaces do we want? What are the tools of the future that we really need?
«Speculative Evolution» by Marc Lee imagines a speculative future where technologies like genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and robotics are used to balances our ecosystem. You are invited to create new variations of animals, fungi, plants and robots and to fly with them through a speculative ecosystem from the perspective of an AI agent.
Exhibited Artwork
Speculative Evolution
Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based InstallationsDue to the threatening predictions of species extinction and global warming, scientists and farmers are increasingly relying on technologies such as genetic engineering, synthetic biology and machine learning. Speculative Evolution imagines a speculative ecosystem 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence and biotechnologies work together to create and optimize species to withstand the increasingly more …
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