© Banz & Bowinkel
Future Is Sensible Competition
Poly Mesh
Swiss Premiere
Friedemann Banz, Giulia Bowinkel
Germany
Hoomanity simulator
2021, 7'
VO. English
Long-detached from human contact, an artificial intelligence suddenly encounters one of its creators. Can the active simulation handle the shock?
If left to its own devices, could artificial intelligence give meaning to its own existence without endlessly repeating the behaviors that formed it? Behaviors which, divorced from their human context, are completely stripped of meaning? Not the one in Poly Mesh, certainly, lost forever in an infinite loop. The return of a destabilizing factor (you, a human) would trigger a new routine whicH w0u1d rǝsu1t, 0n vǝR10us L3ve1s, ¡N hûṃǝn-m#ḉḧ¡n∑ Harm0niɛ [error 0x0000c]
A disturbing experience, with current controversies around neural network-assisted creation highlighting the increasingly close and intimate relationship we are forging with these code-based "beings".
Laurent Kempf
A disturbing experience, with current controversies around neural network-assisted creation highlighting the increasingly close and intimate relationship we are forging with these code-based "beings".
Laurent Kempf
Creation
Friedemann Banz, Giulia Bowinkel
Key collaborators
Key collaborators
Giulia Bowinkel (Idea, Design, 3D Modelling, Text, Programming
), Friedemann Banz (Idea, Design, 3D Modelling, Text, Programming
)
Production
Banz & Bowinkel (Friedemann Banz, Giulia Bowinkel)
World sales
Friedemann Banz, Giulia Bowinkel
Friedemann Banz
1980, Germany
Prior works
2021, NAMESPACES2016-2020, Engine Idle
2019, Bots
2018, Primitive
2017, Palo Alto
2016, Rushing into water
2015, Sinus & Cosinus
2014, Bodypainting
2013, Array
2012, Compositions I
Giulia Bowinkel
1983, Germany
Prior works
2021, NAMESPACES2016-2020, Engine Idle
2019, Bots
2018, Primitive
2017, Palo Alto
2016, Rushing into water
2015, Sinus & Cosinus
2014, Bodypainting
2013, Array
2012, Compositions I
Reservation
This work is part of the program Virtual Territories I, composed of several works.
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