Swiss Media Art - Pax Art Awards

HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland
Curator: Boris Magrini
Solo show
https://www.hek.ch/programm/veranstaltungen/schweizer-medienkunst-marc-lee-cloe-delarue-laurent-guedel-pax-art-awards-2021

HEK, Basel

YANTO - yaw and not tip over - Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations
Photo: Franz Wamhof

HEK, Basel

Time to Nest, Time to Migrate - Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations

HEK, Basel

Friends - Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

HEK, Basel

MORE AND LESS - Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

HEK, Basel

MORE AND LESS India Edition - Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations

Swiss Media Art: Marc Lee, Chloé Delarue, Laurent Güdel – Pax Art Awards 2021 presents works by the winners of the Pax Art Awards 2021 in three parallel solo exhibitions. Marc Lee’s current works delve into themes of biology, the human body and its relationship to nature. Interactive and immersive, they offer insight into new technologies, such as AI, which set out to solve ecological problems or to create fictional profiles on social networks. Interweaving social criticism with poetry, the artist broadens the scope of reflection regarding our responsibility to-wards the environment. Chloé Delarue shows new works from her ongoing TAFAA (Toward A Fully Automated Appearance) cycle of impressive installations simulating future scenarios between fantasy and dystopia. Inquiry into the idea of a virtual simulacrum, self-expression and the fragmentation of how we perceive reality through digital technologies are themes running through this new series of works. Exhibition Brochure

Exhibited Artwork

YANTO - yaw and not tip over

Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations

Due to accelerating acidification and industrial aquafarming, our ocean is becoming increasingly uninhabitable. Aquaculture workers and scientists now rely on genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and machine learning as potential tools to mitigate climate change. YANTO - yaw and not tip over imagines a speculative aquaculture farm 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence creates synthetic more …

Chengdu Biennale

HEK, Basel

S-Factory Seongsu, Seoul

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 …

IN-SONORA, Madrid

Kunstverein Friedrichshafen

HEK, Basel

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 …

HEK, Basel

Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich

G.MAP, Gwangju

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

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 …

Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich

ICA, Yerevan

Reithalle, St. Moritz

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 …

Screenshot, Mobile App

HEK, Basel

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