Performance Works
Performance Works
Saturday, April 20
Antoinette E. Falbo Theatre
11:00 AM
Le bleu ne reviendra jamais bleu
by Guillaume Vallée & Hazy Montagne Mystique
Description:
Le bleu ne reviendra jamais bleu is the title of Hazy Montagne Mystique and Guillaume Vallée audiovisual project. A blend of sound and image to take us on a journey to a space of protection against the fear of the modern world, in a single communication that is art.
Biographies:
Experimental filmmaker and video artist, Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a Major in Film Animation and MFA in Studio Arts - Film Production option. He works mainly on film (Super8, 16mm, 35mm), on analog video (VHS, Hi8) and on stereoscopic video (anaglyph red/cyan). His relationship with these mediums evolved through working with their materiality and their tangibility. Being inspired by experimental animation and structural filmmaking, his practice falls within a process-based approach, fueled by both his experience and findings from his formal research. Vallée’s objective is to create a conceptual connection between content and the technique he uses in order to create a narrative built on the materiality of the mediums.
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Hazy Montagne Mystique is a sound artist dedicated to composition, installation and performance. Drawing on his quest for identity, located between Laos and Quebec, he offers an experimental symphony inspired by the relationship between South Asian culture and his practice developed here.
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2:00 PM
Speculative Speciation: Artificial Anagenesis and Creative Cladogenesis
by Jacklyn Brickman & Sharon Gill
Description:
Jacklyn Brickman and Sharon Gill will perform "Speculative Speciation," accompanied by an experimental video made with Stable Diffusion. Since the 1600s, more than 160 species of birds have gone extinct. Not only are those extinctions profound losses in and of themselves, but they also represent devastating losses of what could have been. Over time, would these species have changed, evolving into new species not yet seen? Would these species have diversified into many more different and wonderful forms increasing biodiversity? Speculative Speciation: Artificial Anagenesis and Creative Cladogenesis ponders on what could have been, by employing AI to generate new species descended from the extinct ones, highlighting what has been lost in the past, what continues to be lost in the present and may be lost for future generations.
Biographies:
Jacklyn Brickman is a visual artist and educator whose work entangles science fact with fiction to address social and environmental concerns by employing natural entities, processes, and technology. Her work spans installation, video, and performance, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary collaboration and social engagement. Fellowships include The National Academy of Sciences, Chaire arts et sciences, Jentel Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Erb Family Foundation. She has exhibited her work internationally. Brickman resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the ancestral and contemporary territory of the Council of the Three Fires – the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Indigenous nations of the Great Lakes region are also known as the Anishinaabe. She is an Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Western Michigan University.
Dr. Sharon Gill is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Western Michigan University. The primary research focus of the Gill lab is to understand the behavioral responses of animals to environmental change. The lab is exploring whether animals alter communication strategies in response to anthropogenic noise, considering the degree to which individuals can flexibly adjust their calls and songs as well as other behaviors depending on noise.
8:00 PM
Deep Time of Latent Spaces
by Eric Souther
Description:
Deep Time of Latent Spaces relates the strata of human activity within large language models as another layer of the Anthropocene, which places AI into the realm of geological thinking that spirals into deep time and broadcasts into the future.
The AI narrator takes us through the most incomprehensible moments of our history starting with the big bang, creation of earth, and the start of life. It uses its generalized knowledge to resolve our grasp of these moments into data-visualized images. It does so with confidence and a little bit of attitude, however, it tends to hallucinate. These hallucinations shine a light on what is needed to create a more ethical and accurate AI.
Biography:
Eric Souther (b.1987, Kansas City) holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and an BFA in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute. His creative research draws from a multiplicity of disciplines, including new materialism, anthropology, ritual, deep time, and toolmaking. These areas are read through one another and coalesce in technological assemblages that form emergent systems or software for exploring relations. I instrumentalize these systems so that they can become performative ways to navigate unexpected images/meaning making. My work takes many pathways, which include interactive installation, audio-visual performance, single-channel video, and software. His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and Design, NYC, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and the Museum of Art, Zhangzhou, China.
