Titanik Galleria Residency
Turku, Finland
Project 2501 was first presented at Titanik Galleria in Turku, Finland.
The performance was part of The Cyberpunk and Capitalist Realism Study Group’s visit at Titanik A.i.R. programme in February 2020. The CCRSG is a multi-disciplinary group of academics, students, activists, artists and musicians instigated by Carmen Schmöl at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Their goal is to examine the cultural significance of cyberpunk by paying special attention to the entanglement of space and identities in the sphere of postmodernism and capitalist realism.
Cibymili is a digital avatar, who in this project will be exported into physical space. Surrounded by images of the avatar's universe, they recites lines from cyberpunk films. In the film, Ghost In The Shell, the cyborg Motoko questions itself about life-forms: "I am a living, thinking entity who was created in the sea of information." Humans and machines are more alike than we realize; deformations, imperfections are part of the way of life for them both.
The performance consists of an audiovisual set up with a variety of equipments such as analogic synths, one or more beamers, microphone, laptops with audio and visual softwares (Ableton Live and TouchDesigner) . The latter is used to generate audio reactive visual effects.
