Mensch Maschine: Soil, Sound, Memory
As AI continues to evolve, grow and expand – from the material to the industrial to the digital and beyond – its impact on the Earth, climate, humanity and all living beings often remains invisible. This year’s Mensch Maschine symposium takes soil, sound and memory as points of departure for rediscovering alternative narratives and conceptions of technologies and intelligence in the arts – in acknowledgement of global perspectives, experiences and voices.
Against the backdrop of ecological grief and extractivism, through technologies of nature and the cosmos, Earth vibrations and machine learning, artists and scientists discuss and explore new ways and practices of thinking, acting and feeling at the intersection of technology with ecology.
The symposium runs in parallel with the group exhibition “Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth”.