Event details

Speaker:
Kristin Jakubek, Leon Brand + Researchers: researchers Armin Bahl, Einat Couzin-Fuchs, Hemal Naik and Anna Stöckl

‘Networked Beings - Parameters and Parallels’ is a captivating video installation with 360-degree spatial sound that combines media art and science in an immersive way. Viewers are transported into the fascinating world of animals and experience first-hand how differently they perceive their environment in their species-specific habitat. Ten different animals, including falcon, grasshopper and carp, reveal their unique sensory worlds and take the viewers out of their own human perception in order to question the human-centric understanding of our environment. The diversity of biological apparatuses of perception is contrasted with the purely algorithmic data processing of artificial intelligence (AI). Viewers are given an insight into the purely mathematical processing of the world of AI, based on data sets.

The direct opposition raises important, contemporary questions in the field of tension between humans and nature. As nature no longer exists today without human influence and must increasingly make space for technological progress, the two non-human forms - animal and digital - and their way of processing the world through electrical signals are explored in parallel in the 24-minute video artwork.

As part of the exhibition, there will be a talk with the artist Kristin Jakubek and the producer and cinematographer Leon Brandt on Friday, 6 September 2024, 6 pm, followed by a panel discussion with the researchers Armin Bahl, Einat Couzin-Fuchs, Hemal Naik and Anna Stöckl from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz. They shared their research findings with artist Kristin Jakubek, laying an important foundation for the creation of the work.

• PLACE: Bürgersaal Konstanz, Sankt-Stephans-Platz 17, 78462 Konstanz
• TIME:   Fri, 6 September 2024, 11 am - 3 pm, 5.30 pm - 9 pm, Sat-Sun, 7-8 September 2024, 11 am - 2 pm, 3 pm - 9 pm
• Entry free

The video artwork was created in exchange and with the support of the Excellence-Cluster Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz. The work was also supported by the Thuringian State Chancellery and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Women's Promotion Fund.