DISNOVATION.ORG è un collettivo di ricerca e gruppo di arte contemporanea che esamina criticamente le ideologie dell’innovazione tecnologica, della crescita economica e i loro impatti socio-ecologici. Fondato a Parigi nel 2012 da Nicolas Maigret e Maria Roszkowska, il gruppo include anche l’artista e filosofo Baruch Gottlieb come membro principale e collabora con vari accademici, attivisti e ingegneri. DISNOVATION.ORG unisce arte contemporanea, ricerca e hacking per tradurre dibattiti complessi in mostre, pubblicazioni ed eventi provocatori. Il loro lavoro si concentra sullo stimolare narrazioni di “post-crescita” e sfidare la credenza dominante nel “tecnosoluzionismo”, ovvero l’idea che la tecnologia possa risolvere tutti i problemi dell’umanità.
BIO:
DISNOVATION.ORG MERGES CONTEMPORARY ART, RESEARCH & HACKING TO CRITICALLY TRANSLATE COMPLEX ECO-SOCIAL DEBATES INTO OPERATIVE AND PROVOCATIVE EXHIBITS. THEY CREATE RADICAL ARTWORKS STAGED AS LARGE LAB EXPERIMENTS FOCUSED ON ENERGY, ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS THAT WORK AS CATALYSTS FOR CRAFTING FUTURES THAT DIVERGE FROM PREVAILING NARRATIVES. THEIR SHOWS, BOOKS AND VIDEOS PERMEATE GLOBAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPES FOSTERING A CRITICAL DIALOGUE AT THE NEXUS OF ARTISTIC, POLITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY.
THEIR WORK HAS BEEN PRESENTED INTERNATIONALLY INCLUDING:
Centre Pompidou (Paris), Transmediale (Berlin), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), FILE (Sao Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Strelka Institute (Moscow), ISEA (Hong Kong), Elektra (Montreal), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), and the Chaos Computer Congress (Hamburg)… Their work has been featured in: Forbes, Vice, Wired, Motherboard, Libération, Die Zeit, Arte TV, Next Nature, Hyperallergic, Le Temps, Neural.it, Digicult, Gizmodo, Seattle Weekly, torrentfreak.com, and Filmmaker Magazine among others.
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PREDICTIVE ART BOT
AN ALGORITHM THAT TURNS THE LATEST MEDIA HEADLINES INTO ARTISTIC CONCEPTS.
In the age of hyperconnectivity, the perverse implications of media echo chambers are becoming more and more obvious. Groups of similar behaviors are being partitioned in filter bubbles, while the few massively reposted topics tends to monopolize most of the available attention. Such insular echo chambers strongly affect ways of thinking, resulting in increasingly homogeneous imaginaries within groups of like-minded people. Predictive Art Bot caricatures the predictability of media influenced artistic concepts, by automating and skirting the human creative process. But beyond mere automation, it aims to stimulate unbridled, counter-intuitive and even disconcerting associations of ideas.
To do so, it continually monitors emerging trends among the most influential news sources in fields as heterogeneous as politics, environment, innovation, culture, activism, or health… On this basis, it identifies and combines keywords to generate concepts of artworks in a fully automated way, ranging from unreasonable to prophetic through absurd. Each prediction becomes a thought experiment waiting to be incubated, misused or appropriated by a human host.
CONCEPTION: DISNOVATION.ORG
PROGRAMMING: JÉRÔME SAINT-CLAIR
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, WEBSITE, INSTALLATION
PROTOTYPE | 2015–2018
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