{"id":26705,"date":"2021-10-13T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benayoun.com\/moben\/2021\/10\/13\/dialog-the-first-aliens-encounter\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T04:11:09","slug":"dialog-the-first-aliens-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benayoun.com\/fr\/2021\/10\/13\/dialog-the-first-aliens-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00efaloG, the First Aliens’ Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

D\u00efaloG The first Aliens’ encounter 2021 by Refik Anadol and Maurice Benayoun Public art interactive installation, Size to be adapted to the venue (usually 2-4m\/screen). 2 Video displays (projection or LED screens) Sensors, AI, real-time generative graphics, behavioral design, voice recognition, text generation, sound. Production: MoBen, Analog Native, Neuro-Design Lab, ACIM, SCM, CityU HK, MindSpaces S+T+Arts European Program, and MindSpaces HK, RGC HK Premi\u00e8re indoor for ART MACHINES 2 conference and exhibition, June 10-20 2020, School of Creative Media, Creative Media Center, CityUniversity of Hong Kong Curators Tobias Klein, and Carlos Rodrigo. \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> D\u00efaloG <\/em>is an interactive urban media art installation exploring the themes of alterity, strangeness, and immigration, in a performative way. The work presents two pieces that are at the same time artworks and aliens. They are confronted to a new environment where they don\u2019t belong to\u2026 yet. They will have to adapt their language, build common knowledge, integrating all new artifacts and natural phenomena that constitute now their environment. This includes the other living beings moving around them, and, eventually, they will have to understand each other. While we use the concept of language very broadly to include speech, performance, gesture, utterance, and even data, we focus on strangeness from an ontological perspective, trying to mark a terrain of possibilities for the intersection of interpersonal and digital experiences in the urban sphere. MoBen and Refik Anadol take the notion of \u201cdia-logos\u201d (through-word, through speech) embedded in the etymological roots of the word \u201cdialogue\u201d, more understood as an informational thread processed through an iterative feedback loop between perception, and expression, and push it to a level of transactional complexity activating the potential difference between virtuality and visuality. In this way, we aim to create a unique, site-specific language between each of both works we are presenting as living entities and their unknown public, and also, between our works that are initially alien to each other \u2013 a language of unexpected and indefinable machine expressions that adapt themselves to the constant flow of data representing real-time environmental, societal, and human actions. D\u00efaloG<\/em> is made of two \u201cliving\u201d visual dynamic entities facing each other in the public space. They don\u2019t look like the living beings we know. They don\u2019t speak any language we know. They are aliens, strangers, immigrants. They are clearly – and desperately – trying to understand each other, to understand their new environment and their strange public. D\u00efaloG<\/em> reflects on the difficulty of building a mutual understanding beyond social and cultural differences. All that make living beings what they are: their morphology, their behavior, their ethology, and, beyond language, their cognitive functions make the laborious process of learning from strangeness and alterity a reality. Dotted with ever-growing perceptive and cognitive capacities, aware of its environment, the artwork is now able to adapt itself, to evolve and to communicate as would a more advanced living entity do. D\u00efaloG<\/em> tries to epitomize the emergence of the artwork as a subject, not only able to learn from its environment but also to dialogue with its public, and even, it may be a bigger challenge, trying to understand other artworks. Contributions and history of the project The D\u00efaloG<\/em> project stems from the authors’, Refik Anadol and Maurice Benayoun, respective practice in the field of generative art, that converge on this endeavor in the very context of the MindSpaces<\/strong> collaborative research project, \u201cArt Driven Adaptive Outdoor and Indoor Design\u201d, together with 12 different international partners, supported by the EU Horizon2020, S+T+Arts Lighthouse program.<\/p>\n