Dialogue about DÏALOG - Conversation Refik Anadol (LA) - MoBen (HK)
Collaborative project MindSpaces & MindSpaces HK / CityUHK
This conversation is a dialogue about DïaloG, which is an urban media art installation that is currently being developed as collaborative research between MindSpaces & MindSpaces HK / CityUHK, under the EU S+T+Arts program.
DïaloG is co-created by Maurice Benayoun (MoBen/CityU HK) and Refik Anadol (AnalogNative). In the public space (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain) two “living” entities face each other. They don’t look like the living beings we know. They don’t speak any language we know. They are aliens, strangers, immigrants. Facing each other they gradually mutate. They seem to react to their environment. Even more, they are clearly, and desperately, trying to understand each other. In the context of the social diversity of L’Hospitalet, the second city of Catalunya, and a popular suburb of Barcelona, DïaloG reflects on the difficulty of building a mutual understanding beyond social and cultural differences. The real-time generated creatures have behaviours and appearance affected through AI by their cultural background, their environment, and what they perceive from the “locals” that interfere with their attempt to communicate and understand each other.
10:15 - 11:15 CET, 9 September 2020
Ars Electronica Voyages Channel
hkgardens.com
CREDITS:
Director: Maurice Benayoun and Refik Anadol
Project manager: Moben and Analog Native
Contributors: partners of the MindSpaces EU research project and the MindSpaces HK project
HK Production: Charlie Yip, NeuroDesign Lab, ACIM, SCM
Location: Los Angeles, Hong Kong