SYMBIOSIS· Feb 2024
| custom software, AI-agent, hard drive, live generative sound, metal frame, crt television, lcd
SYMBIOSIS is a mixed media installation about absence, privacy and virtual copies. It is built around a custom-made software that produces ambient music by programming itself, endlessly. As the music is played live on a CCTV screen, fragments of randomly accessed text files from my personal computer flash across the screen.
A CCTV displays the output of an AI agent operating my live coding editor TidalConduit, which is situated on a metal frame. The agent has been trained on both the full archive of my music works and personal writings/diary entries that I take inspiration from. It also has access to my file system, enabling it to read any text file on my hard drive. The result is an infinite stream of ambient music. This performance is also live-streamed and accessable over the internet. An LCD displays QR codes, allowing everyone to experience the stream.
While making this work, I thought about how the trillions of data points we have left on the Net are now being used to build artificial neural networks that store these data points as memories within themselves. The next step in this evolution could be that each net user has a myriad of small agentic programs acting on behalf of that user, or as a virtual copy of some aspect of that user's soul. Will these be the traces of the next Internet?
The installation was shown during the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) Rundgang 2024.
