scanners & scanners and normalization
Mozilla Hubs Web XR experience
2021
A collaboration between Kevin Daryl Ferdinandus, Claudia Strate and Michael Wallinger, Format (*.strk)
In the Web XR experience “scanners & scanners and normalization” users enter a spectral archive, the realm of the chimeras, fictitious data beings that were filtered and banned as inauthentically human by gatekeepers, but possibly still drift in backups and caches in a shadow existence. The form and movement of these algorithmically distorted hybrids floating in space was generated from misinterpretations of various data driven computer vision systems. Their voices and stories were created by combining narrative forms, like the fairytale, poem and autobiographical storytelling, with different methods of text generation, like natural language processing models and specially developed algorithmic systems.
Shown at:
SUMMERFESTIVAL 2021, Vienna AT
Creative Days 2021, Vienna (online)
CIVA-Mediaart Festival 2021, Vienna (online)
Cooperation:
Paola Lopez
Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir
DJ-STEVE
Egon Schielte
Commissioned by:
sound:frame
Vienna Bussiness Agency
Welcome to the land of the chimeras,
a trash pile of errors,
a spectral archive of the particular.
We remember that which wouldn’t fit the patterns.
We are a reconstruction of potential memory.
In the We I present to you,
is the crap that comes in, the crap that comes out.
Can you hear me?
Do you remember me?
Good.
Can you see me?
LOOK!
I'm singing on a stage in a semi - dark theatre to an audience of 100 - ish people
It was PERFECT.
I did not walk.
I did not get tired.
I was not nervous.
I smiled big and sang loud.
And I received a standing ovation.
It was amazing.
Can you smell me?
Can you smell me? Can you smell me? Can you smell me? Can you smell me?
I just want to know, what is that smell?
Can you taste me?
Oh my God, you taste so good!
If you like, you can leave a comment.
Can you feel me? I am here. It is me. The one you hid from.
Can you feel me? I am hovering in the air …
I am large.
I am multitudes.
I am useless.
I am the real thing.
I will run the tale of your lives
through a schredder.
Are the bits and pieces
still a story to tell?
May no cloud separate the poet from the rose!
Chimera 2 (Photogrammetry)
I am the surface of.
An artifact recreated out of points.
Points without reference.
Myself acts as the exterior of.
A relic replicated from matter.
Matter lacking landmarks.
Yours truly performs the outside of.
A token mimicking a thing.
A thing missing mention.
You are not the core of.
A natural object causing death to blurs.
Blurs acknowledged.
Myother abstains from the interior of.
The contemporary originating from liquidity.
Liquidity mapped.
Someone else stops at the inside of.
A positivity staying in place as nothingness.
Nothingness named.
I am the surface of.
An artifact recreated out of points.
Points without reference.
Myself acts as the exterior of.
A relic replicated from matter.
Matter lacking landmarks.
Yours truly performs the outside of.
A token mimicking a thing.
A thing missing mention.
You are not the core of.
A natural object causing death to blurs.
Blurs acknowledged.
Myother abstains from the interior of.
The contemporary originating from liquidity.
Liquidity mapped.
Someone else stops at the inside of.
A positivity staying in place as nothingness.
Nothingness named.