- Typology
- Art
- Project
- A Better Version of 人 021
- Client
- year
- 2017 - 2018
- Location
- Goethe-Institut Ostasien; Seoul, Beijing, Tokio, Haidan, Beijing, China
- Architectural support for the touring exhibition "A Better Version of 人“, curated by Nina Franz and Christian von Borries for Goethe Institute East Asia.
- curation
- Nina Franz & Christian von Borries
- production
- Goethe-Institut China & Goethe-Institut Korea
- graphic design
- Alexander Winkelmann
- architectural support
- c/o now
- exhibition stand construction
- Mike Yoon (Eugene Associates)
- with contributions by
- Alex Anikina & Anton Anikin, Christian von Borries, Lee Bul, Alice Creischer, Maja Čule, Simon Denny, Melanie Gilligan, Kang Jungsuck, Elena Knox & Katsumi Watanabe, Lawrence Lek, METASITU, Nolan Dennis/Tabita Rezaire/Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Replika, Andreas Siekmann, Walter Solon and Jorge Loureiro, Du Yuqing, Payne Zhu
- team c/o now
- Tobias Hönig, Andrijana Ivanda, Markus Rampl, Paul Reinhardt
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Fig.2103For six days in December, Art Sonje Center for Contemporary Art will be transformed into a venue for innovative technologies and artistic imagination from across the globe. Artists and tech-developers will join hands in this showcase of a wide range of new applications and products that shape our present and future.
[Seoul] © Alexander Winkelmann
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Gif.2106Video documentation
© Christian von Borries
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Fig.2105[Seoul] Photo: Yunsik Lim © Goethe Institut
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Fig.2108Alex Anikina & Anton Anikina: Fate INC.
FATE Inc. is a company working on the best possible future for everyone. It is achieved through ‘fate conditioning’, or the process of introducing subtle changes into individual timelines so that they are put into alignment.
© Sherry
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Fig.___METASITU: SWARM
SWARM is a social software that visualizes the collective consciousness by recording the evolution of opinions on a given topic between different actors. Initially intended to operate at an urban scale to promote horizontality between government officials, planning authorities, and the civil society, SWARM reflects the exchange between different voices at different scales – from domestic, to local, to city-wide, to regional, to international.
“Ideas converging. Evolving. Better Together.”
[Seoul] Photo: Yunsik Lim © Goethe Institut
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Fig.___Maja Čule: Facing the Same Direction
Technology made a promise of greater productivity, and with it more free time for pursuing personal growth. Yet somehow work seems to occupy our thoughts and lives all the time. By taking part in this campaign, you will help spread a radical idea – the ability to choose between work or not work.
© Sherry
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Fig.2109Lawrence Lek: Play Station™ - Farsight
With Play Station™ we enter the world of the technology start-up Farsight. A world leader in digital automation, Farsight trains employees to outsource their jobs, rewarding top performers with access to exclusive entertainment and e-holidays. Access to this virtual world is through a mandala-like installation of VR headsets, video training guides, and voiceover tutorials.
[Seoul] Photo: Yunsik Lim © Goethe Institut
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Fig.2110Lawrence Lek: Play Station™ - Farsight
© Lawrence Lek
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Fig.___Elena Knox & Katsumi Watanabe + Department of Intermedia Art + Science, Waseda University: Omikuji 御御籤
Omikuji is a live-stream event taking place between Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) and Artsonje Center in Seoul. The event focuses on Alter, a new robot with experimental AI that uses a self-organizing neural network to classify its surroundings. Such AI strategies include deep belief networks, through which machines determine certain inputs to be believable. Using Knox+Watanabe’s Belief Machine, visitors can communicate with Alter in Tokyo’s Miraikan.
[Seoul] Photo: Yunsik Lim © Goethe Institut
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Fig.2107御御籤
© 楚楚
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Fig.2104Art Sonje Center Seoul with a banner of "A Better Version of You".
[Seoul] © Nina Franz & Christian von Borries
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Fig.2101basic coordination...
© c/o now
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Fig.2102Sketch as sent by Lawrence Lek for his booth "Play Station - Farsight"
@ Lawrence Lek
Goethe Institut:
A BETTER VERSION OF YOU provides a look into the technological agents that serve as the foundation of contemporary societies on a global scale, from self-learning machines, neural networks and ubiquitous computing, to swarm-based urban planning, personalised experiental gaming, brain-machine interfaces, precision agriculture, online safe spaces and the everyday tools of the entrepreneurial self. Harnessing perspectives from China, South-Korea, Japan, USA, Russia, South-Africa and Europe, A BETTER VERSION OF YOU will showcase latest advances in defining political and social technologies.