Eastern Wisdom Extracting Machine

The exhibition presents a video created by artificial intelligence that brings to life the wisdom of traditional Chinese landscape painting and geomancy. – this is enough as a short abstract The title of the exhibition refers to AI-machine learning technology as a tool for knowledge extraction – “[AI as] a knowledge augmentation tool that helps to perceive features, patterns and correlations through a vast space of data beyond human reach.” (Pasquinelli and Joler) – contributing to the expansion of the Noosphere* of the planet Earth. The exhibition will feature an AI-generated video that revives the legacy of traditional Chinese landscape painting Shan Shui in fusion with the Eastern teaching of geomancy called Fen Shui. Landscape images are enriched with the dimensions of depth and time using Gaussian rendering technology. Their permutations and transformations, performed by artificial intelligence, follow both the rules that were established for the depiction of landscapes within the Shan Shui school, and the formal teaching of Feng Shui about the laws of spatial arrangement that support the flow of life energy. The result is a poetic audio-visual work in which a database of reproductions of landscape paintings is transformed into a living stream of natural scenery, in which landscapes embodying the harmonious coexistence of nature, cosmic forces and human knowledge evolve from the shared code of Eastern wisdom.

*Noosphere (sphere of reason); a unified whole in which evolving society and nature merge, influencing each other in the closest possible way; the area of interaction between society and nature, in which human activity is the main factor of development. The term was first used by French philosopher and mathematician Édouard Le Roy in 1927, inspired by the work of geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and biochemist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. (Wikipedia)

Gallery G99, House of Gentlemen from Kunštát, Dominikánská 348, Brno

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