electricity – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Until I Die https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/until-i-die/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:51:32 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=2654

::vtol:: (RU)

The large-scale project Until I Die is a hybrid installation that uses the artist’s blood, extracted and accumulated over a long period of time. The blood is used to generate electricity for a small sound synthesizer.

It is one of the most significant and complex works created by ::vtol:: in recent years, touching on many topics relating to hybrid art: alternative sources of energy, unification of the human body and machine, using the body as a resource. In general, this project is an attempt to create a technical-biological clone of the artist, using his own life energy to compose electronic music.

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Marlene Reischl (AT)

Field is a light installation combining fluorescent tubes and Tesla coils. It utilizes the coils’ high-voltage fields to illuminate surrounding tubes without the use of physical power connections. As the coils wander across the sculpture their electrical fields activate the tubes nearby, stimulating the trapped gas to create gently flowing movements of light.

The lack of wiring and the seemingly organic animation of the light induce a surreal, eerie scenery. Adapting a basic principle of physics, the installation becomes self-contained and is given a new level of artistic integrity that creates an uncanny, poetic situation.

Credits

www.marlenereischl.com

Supported by Kunstuniversität Linz

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