Forecast Condensed is a compact format that offers creative thinkers from a wide range of disciplines the opportunity to examine their ongoing projects and enhance their applicability with advice and feedback from a panel of mentors.
The projects, in no particular order, are:
(What Have We) Lost and Found
Kenta kondo
The Tokyo-based collective kenta kondo is working on a project that uses Design Fiction to craft a set of physical artifacts from an AI-dependent future. Lost and Found imagines a future in which individuals outsource decision-making to their AI counterparts, implant computational technology, and opt-into real time corporate monitoring for frictionless experiences. Kenta kondo has unpacked the values embedded in present-day objects and replaced them with values from this possible future. Now, the collective would like to design a roleplaying scenario that would engage the audience as participant of this speculative world.
Mother
Sabelli Fioretti Giovanni
Mother is a proposal for a contemporary dance performance that explores the intersection of choreography and artificial intelligence. The research focuses on the figure of the mother as a metaphor for the generative body par excellence as opposed to the so-called “general” Artificial Intelligence. In a vision of posthuman dance where the agency of movement is assembled, constructed, distributed between human and machinic beings, Mother aims to investigate the limits and aesthetics of Artificial Intelligence, representing a choreographical object at disposal of the dancers’ body.
Getting Closer
Laura Laipple
A hybrid exploration of art, technology, and science, the work Getting Closer seeks new pathways for planetary thinking and collective intelligence. It aims to make complex environmental issues tangible by placing them within a local context. The project’s vision is embodied by an object serving as a mediator between humans, technology, and non-humans, reflecting the hybrid nature of life in the Anthropocene, where nature and culture are inseparable. An embedded AI, informed by data from environmental sensors, scientific research, and human interaction, helps develop a nuanced understanding of the ecosystem. As a learning system, it continuously updates its understanding, becoming an informed participant in the interspecies collective.
Tracing Truths
Giacomo Nanni and Till Rückwart
Tracing Truths is conceived of as an umbrella project within metaLAB (at) Berlin that aims to merge fact-checking, investigative journalism, and OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) practices with artistic research and media studies. It explores aesthetics of metadata to challenge the complex phenomenon of post-truth networks and narratives. With the proliferation of fake news, the rise of deep fakes, as well as political conflicts and the dynamics of social media platforms with algorithms fostering the virality of affective content, the production of knowledge has become increasingly vulnerable as people struggle to distinguish between facts and falsehoods. By emphasizing low-tech and openly accessible tools and by employing DIY and critical making approaches, the project interrogates authorship and agencies of the common to build methods of self-assurance while examining intersections of art, politics, and research.
Soma of the Land
Petja Ivanova
Centered on an immersive installation, this project aims to create an experiential understanding of how AI distances us from our somatic, planetary wisdom and to inspire a reconnection with embodied agency. The project critiques technocracy’s capitalist underpinnings, which promote disembodiment and the illusion of limitless resources, by contrasting this with a deep, relational consciousness rooted in the body and the Earth. The installation creates a sensory journey where participants experience the emotional and physical alienation caused by technocratic believes and ultimately AI. They then move through a “portal” to access a state of magical, connected consciousness, reconnecting with the wounded emotional body and the planet.
The workshop is enacted by Forecast as part of Berlin Science Week. It is organized in collaboration with the Falling Walls Foundation, and is co-funded by the Schering Stiftung. Ruth Patir’s work-stay in Berlin is facilitated by Artis together with DAAD.
