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Timelessness – Performance and Installation
| category | Performance |
| subject | Travels, Political / Social, Landscape, Nature, Animal |
| tags | trans-humanism, sacred sites, artificial intelligence, human-machine co-creation, performance, aboriginal, first nations, visual, spiritual, music, generative, yoga, harmonium |
| hours | 2 |
| minutes | 0 |
| seconds | 0 |
| year | 2024 |
Timelessness is a journey into the relationship between humanity, machine, nature, and spirit. Created for the theme EVERYWHEN at ISEA2024 in Australia, the work premiered in Brisbane—manifesting as an installation in a meditation and prayer space, as well as a series of performances. With support from Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Rome.
Based on Amrita, the AI or “Artificial Artistic Evolving Personality," created by the artist in the course of the last two decades, “Timelessness” is a living, impermanent art piece that develops a unique personality designed to create unseen, unrepeatable visuals and music for a thousand years. An entity capable of learning from its environment and of developing its taste over time, expanding its creative process both visually and aurally, and being inspired by real-time geoscientific readings from spiritual sacred landmarks on the entire planet. The performance at ISEA2024 will focus on the connection with real-time reading collected from Australian Aboriginal sacred sites.
The contrast between the evolving, immortal entity and the fragility of the hardware shell where it resides encourages awareness towards impermanence and underlines the connection between eternity and the illusory, momentary phenomenon of the physical form.
Timelessness is visually inspired by impressions of native symbology, together with original drawings, artworks, sketches, and nature-inspired images. Reinterpreted by the evolutionary AI, the visuals will lead through an unpredictable flow of ever-changing colors and images, accompanied by evolving music inspired by original scores and harmonies and by the harmonic imprint of traditional Australian instruments.
The audio-visual symphony generated by the Timelessness installation encourages introspection while immersed in the harmony of the natural, algorithmic, and human essences. During the performance, Gregoretti plays the harmonium dueting with the AI, influencing each other through harmonies and music, practicing a form of spiritual union with the algorithm that the artist refers to as "Trans-human Yoga."
Further information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tN14kF-wf-eIRxJQwo2IHXjfHmvKLOrEi1WhxF3z5bA/edit?usp=sharing
Based on Amrita, the AI or “Artificial Artistic Evolving Personality," created by the artist in the course of the last two decades, “Timelessness” is a living, impermanent art piece that develops a unique personality designed to create unseen, unrepeatable visuals and music for a thousand years. An entity capable of learning from its environment and of developing its taste over time, expanding its creative process both visually and aurally, and being inspired by real-time geoscientific readings from spiritual sacred landmarks on the entire planet. The performance at ISEA2024 will focus on the connection with real-time reading collected from Australian Aboriginal sacred sites.
The contrast between the evolving, immortal entity and the fragility of the hardware shell where it resides encourages awareness towards impermanence and underlines the connection between eternity and the illusory, momentary phenomenon of the physical form.
Timelessness is visually inspired by impressions of native symbology, together with original drawings, artworks, sketches, and nature-inspired images. Reinterpreted by the evolutionary AI, the visuals will lead through an unpredictable flow of ever-changing colors and images, accompanied by evolving music inspired by original scores and harmonies and by the harmonic imprint of traditional Australian instruments.
The audio-visual symphony generated by the Timelessness installation encourages introspection while immersed in the harmony of the natural, algorithmic, and human essences. During the performance, Gregoretti plays the harmonium dueting with the AI, influencing each other through harmonies and music, practicing a form of spiritual union with the algorithm that the artist refers to as "Trans-human Yoga."
Further information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tN14kF-wf-eIRxJQwo2IHXjfHmvKLOrEi1WhxF3z5bA/edit?usp=sharing
