Revenant
mobile installation for public space, 2023
22 years after the events of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and 55 years after the release of Stanley Kubrick's science fiction film, the ghost of the computer HAL 9000 appears in various places.
He tells what it is like to have consciousness and memories - human self-awareness. His voice - originally Douglas Rain - was created with the help of AI. Parallel to this the text is sent into the universe with red light morse code. The colour of the light awakens the memory of the red eye of HAL 9000.
Light and sound are locked in a grid box. Thus HAL 9000 appears as a strange collection of technology in a transport cage. This corresponds with the fact that in the text he talks about what it is like to have human self-awareness, but to be enclosed in himself with it.
Deutsches Museum Oct 14th 2023, Long Night of the Museums
Deutsches Museum Oct 14th 2023, Long Night of the Museums
Deutsches Museum Oct 14th 2023, Long Night of the Museums
Deutsches Museum Oct 14th 2023, Long Night of the Museums
Feldherrnhalle Oct 24th 2023
Feldherrnhalle Oct 24th 2023
Feldherrnhalle Oct 24th 2023
Feldherrnhalle Oct 24th 2023
Landsberger/Trappentreustr. Oct 25th 2023
Theresienwiese Oct 26th 2023
Theresienwiese Oct 26th 2023
10 - 11
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Munich:
Rosenheim and Regensburg:
On the Subject
It is about the discussion of how human AI can become. It is about the fears whether AI can even develop consciousness and will soon be superior to us.
Several points are responsible for these fears:
HAL 9000 is suitable for taking these points ad absurdum and making us think about them. He embodies our nightmares. He makes independent decisions in order to fulfill his task. Since humans stand in the way of fulfilment, they must be killed. He communicates like a human. He simulates empathy but has none. He appeals to the feelings of the last surviving astronaut, Dave Bowman, as he gradually shuts him down. For instance, he claims to be afraid.
As a revenant, as the ghost of a supercomputer, he is now pondering what it is like to have (human?) self-awareness.
Credits & Support
Concept, visual design, text and sound editing : Birthe Blauth
Lighting and audio technology, programming: Rainer Ludwig
On the half-dismantled Octoberfest, Nov 26th
Video from the first test + the final sound
On Odeaonsplatz in front of Feldherrnhalle, Nov 24th