Art shed its staid, sedate manner and jumped onto the digital bandwagon a few years in the past; the remainder of the world woke as much as that truth someday through the pandemic and has been making up for misplaced time since. Suddenly, a complete new cyber world opened up a vista of prospects for the artistically, AI-inclined.
If you assume you have got missed that prepare, there’s nonetheless an opportunity you possibly can hop on. This weekend will see Bengaluru host an exhibition the place Artificial Intelligence (AI) is just about (pun meant) the canvas on/ by way of which artwork has been rendered. These tasks are part of FutureFantastic, a tech-art pageant that makes use of AI, interactive artwork and reside performances to shine a highlight on world challenges reminiscent of local weather change.
So very meta
This AI Tech artwork pageant was conceptualised by BeFantastic in partnership with FutureEvery part (UK) as a multi-venue occasion the place artistes have embraced AI in some type or different to inform tales of local weather change. It is a part of British Council’s India/UK Together, Season of Culture initiative.
“Essentially, we’re trying to explore whether art and technology coming together can become a new and interesting medium for storytelling. And the stories we want to tell are on different aspects of this complex concept called climate change,” says Kamya Ramachandran, Festival Director and Co-Curator of FutureFantastic.
While new media arts is a longtime vertical within the Western artwork world, most senior artists in India are cautious of utilizing expertise for artwork. “However, younger ones are learning some of it in college at a rudimentary level. That is where we come in. Over the last few years, we’ve run workshops where artists can play with technology to create something interesting.”
It is a shift in perspective, not only for an artist who learns to make use of expertise, but additionally for technologists who apply scientific know-how in artwork, says Kamya. “This is about blurring these boundaries to work with each other and go to an interesting place of innovation,”
According to Kamya, two functions are achieved — one, artists are upskilled to be related within the digital age, and second, individuals be taught from one another. “The peer-learning, knowledge-sharing space is important; since experts in AI have only 2-3 years of experience under their belt, a peer learning community is being built.”
As many as 53 artists, performers and audio system can be presenting their work at FutureFantastic. In protecting with the spirit of collaboration, a minimum of three artists have labored collectively to create a single piece of labor. Digital artwork college students from the IT division, Government of Karnataka, are additionally part of the occasion.
With local weather change as a theme, there are interactive reveals on subjects reminiscent of sustainable existence, cyclones and flooding, and the survival context of local weather change.
As it addresses a urgent concern, organisers are on the lookout for venues the place the reveals can log on or be seen within the metaverse, to allow them to be accessed by a world viewers.
Elsewhere in India…
…it’s rather less exhibition-y and a bit of extra live-ly. This reside, transmedia efficiency titled Elsewhere in India, combines recreation engine expertise, AI-generated artwork and Carnatic-electronic music, to current a one-of-a-kind expertise.
Helmed by audio-visual artists Thiruda (Avinash Kumar) and Murthovic (MSR Murthy), the mission options their digital human avatars enlisted by ‘an out-of-work cultural cyborg named Meenakshi, to remix extinct heritage, craft and science traditions’.
As online game specialists and digital music maestros, Avinash and Murthy realised they might harness their talent set, “to make performances”. “We decided to combine both those worlds — of electronic music and video games — and that led us to Elsewhere in India,” says Avinash, including the idea developed out, ”of the work we do in our studio of mixing Indian heritage and tradition with new media and video video games and so forth.”
According to Avinash, the mission centres round the way forward for Indian cities, the place 50-60 years later, tradition is a farce. Three protagonists accompany audiences as they journey into this new world of the long run.
“On the music front, this project included working with as many as 40 classical, folk and tribal musicians, mostly from the south of India to record music with them and then trying to create our electronic soundtrack using those elements,” says Avinash.
Visually, Elsewhere introduces two kinds of work. “Since we work with game engines, both Murthy and I sport 3D avatars and the main protagonist is a cyborg called Meenakshi. We chose the idea of a cyborg as a metaphor for a space where you can chill with your ideas.”
A variety of AI-based artwork has been used for creating visuals for the present other than recreation engine visuals. “It’s also a music show and while it has a cinema vibe to it, it’s not linear in the sense of a traditional film. The narrative is more open-ended and subject to the viewer, while at the same time, audiences will be on their feet as at a music festival,” he says.
Avinash provides their eventual aim is to create a a lot bigger present, which would come with “live musicians and Bharatanatyam dancers,” although that’s nonetheless a couple of months away.
For these a bit perplexed as to what Elsewhere entails, “It’s at the intersection of a cinema/ music/ art experience — a new genre in a sense. Both Murthy and I have our roots in the Indian electronic dance music scene and this show borrows some of the vocabulary of that format, but it also brings in a cinematic situation.”
Elsewhere In India is produced by Antariksha Studio.
All aboard the AI Express
Two tasks supported by the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore are on the pageant as part of the BeFantastic Within Fellowship. The Merge: Embodied Al Bangalore by Berlin-based artist CyberRäuber, is a performative piece that explores town of Bengaluru. The work includes 4 human performers who can be adopted by a digital camera across the metropolis and their interactions can be streamed reside to the Festival Centre and varied places across the nation and the world.
Where Do I Come From? Where Do I Go? by artists Malavika PC (India), Papia Chakraborty (India) and Asli Dinc (Germany) with supporting artist Pritha Kundu (India), explores the connection between the performers and the rubbish they generate, in an AI-powered artwork set up.
The FutureFantastic will happen at Bangalore International Centre from March 24 to 26, 2023. Free entry, however registration is required. For extra particulars go to futurefantastic.in, goethe.de/bangalore and social media platforms.
Nothing synthetic about this:
The seventh version of the much-awaited Namu Recommends Vegan Market can be held on the Bangalore International Center (BIC) as a part of Future Fantastic. The two-day occasion will function over 70 vegan manufacturers from across the nation, in addition to plant-based milk and cheese manufacturers.
Apart from meals merchandise, eco-friendly private care merchandise and zero-waste on a regular basis necessities that target sustainability can be introduced from 12 midday to 8pm, on March 25 and 26 on the BIC rooftop.
Source: www.thehindu.com