Human Machine Fellowship 2024

Vita

Viktor Brim is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the ontologies of cinematic spaces, urban phenomena and the concept of power. His work focuses on the physical manifestation of power structures and their spatial and territorial extension. He combines documentary, research and analytical approaches with the sensual, aesthetic and tangible quality of the moving image and installation elements. He is particularly interested in tracing concrete discourses and ideologies that become visible in material forms.

Emerson Culurgioni is a media artist and filmmaker whose work explores the interactions between industrial structures, spatial change and socio-economic power relations. The focus is on how visible and invisible influences transform physical, digital and social spaces. He combines documentary and essayistic approaches to investigate aesthetic and structural entanglements of power and resource control. His films LEUNA, HABITAT, LA DUNA and AUSBEUTUNG have been shown in exhibitions and at international festivals.

Residency

In Configuration Drift (A.T.), we look at the growing infrastructure of hyperscale data centers as central nodes in a network that is closely linked to resource extraction, water treatment, energy production and the production of graphics cards. These nodes are central actors of digital capitalism. Our aim is to develop aesthetic forms and visual strategies that make the invisible interconnections of these data infrastructures visible. We explore how digital networks not only create virtual spaces, but also change physical landscapes, consume resources and influence power structures.