A Flower
In the shady slopes of the French Tarn gorge, a flower has just bloomed. She is called Ladyslipper.
MycoMythologies Infrastructures for Each Other
MycoMythologies: Infrastructures for Each Other
MycoMythologies: Infrastructures for Each Other summons human, mycelial and computer-vision-agencies to join together in a performance of entanglement, providing understanding that the practices of human and other-than-human infrastructures are made with and informed by one another. Working with the AI network of styleGAN - trained on datasets of human faces, mycelium, roots, rivers, pipelines, roadways and extraction facilities - infrastructures in the latent space are generated to enfold and erode into each other. Becoming infrastructures for each other. The video essay is an attempt at polyphonic montage that allows the digital image to be formed with agency of multiple human and non-human forces while revealing its constitutive parts - the pixels. The infrastructure that enables humans to generate and see digital images is exposed with pixel sorting flow , hinting at the fact that digital images are one of the tools that enables human beings to see beyond our species, thus its production should be questioned constantly.
Director
Kaitlin Bryson
Saša Spečal
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Kaitlin Bryson, Saša Spečal
Kaitlin Bryson is an ecological artist concerned with environmental and social justice. Her art practice and activism are focused on biological and metaphysical applications of healing, responding to the pervasive persistence of harm in the world. Bryson primarily works with fungi as resource, metaphor and collaborators for her artworks. Saša Spačal is a postmedia artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her work focuses primarily on the posthuman condition, where human beings exist and act as one of many elements in the ecosystem and not as sovereigns.
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