'Networked Beings - Parameters and Parallels'

2023

'Networked Beings - Parameters and Parallels' is an immersive video installation with 360-degree spatial sound. In the video work, the POV of ten different animals is transmitted as a kind of 'speculative video data set’ to an AI for image recognition.The work is an audio-visual dialog between the unfamiliar portraits of nature as habitats shot from the animals' point of view and insights into the purely mathematical data-processing of an AI neural network. Two non-human forms of being are juxtaposed in their processing of the world. This raises important, contemporary questions in the field of tension between nature and technology and their human-mediated relation. The visual data-set of animal perceptions recalls the richness and expansiveness of the natural world and quietly asks what information is being lost in the unstoppable processes of digitalisation.