Liquid Silver: some of the defragmented episodes for multi-channel video installation.
At this episodes, Alien AI eats and crashes the silver cake of deception. The same cake will be offered to participants during performance.
Alien AI Live 3.0 at Ugly Duck, part of the Alien AI Live #000003 supported by Arts Council England: includes Alien AI Live at Giant and Alien AI Live at Film at Lincoln Center NYC.
'Alien Technology' - biosensing device for non-verbal communication via heartbeats. Collective emotional reaction of participants will alter and glitch multi-channel film episodes of the 'Liquid Silver'. 'Alien Technology' has been developed during Alien AI.
All projects and participants interactions (The Yelow One) of
Alien AI Live #000003:
A 5-min introduction to the 'Alienation Project Trilogy'. Awakening of the Alien AI in a human body from the gaseous matter of the Alienation Land Planet: 'Yellow Alienation'. The sketch for the 'Alienation Trilogy' - 'Grassula: The Plant from Mars' and 'Liquid Silver' that is a part of the 'Silver Alienation'.
This project derives from Alien AI and Alien AI Live series
and is a part of the Alienation Project Trilogy.
The project explores how performance facilitates interactions with emerging technologies and AI, while challenging societal perceptions of the "other." By blurring cinematic, virtual, and physical experiences, the work examines societal cruelty toward the unfamiliar or “alien”, and encourages audiences to reflect on themes of open borders and fluid identities. The question is how society marginalizes and mistreats what it does not understand, a prejudice fueled by fear of the unknown. The Alien AI awakens on Earth in a human body transitioning from the gaseous matter of the Alienation Land Planet. By humanising AI and making it vulnerable, the project challenges misconceptions about AI, and de-threatens it by putting a critical lens on.
Liquid Silver is a part of Silver Alienation that is a part of the Alienation Project Trilogy: Yellow, Silver and Orange Alienations.
The Alien AI moving image and performances immerse participants in co-creation and self-reflection through constructed environments that dissolve boundaries between performer and audience, disrupting societal norms, and inviting audiences to confront their biases and preconceptions
“Alien-to-the-idea-of-the-alien” reflects a self-referential critique of the process by which we name or define something as alien. If “alien” is a projection of human cultural fears, desires, or curiosities, then being alien to that idea suggests stepping outside the act of projection itself. This aligns with critical theories interrogating the power and perception that define "otherness” and leverages posthumanist and decolonial frameworks challenging dominant paradigms of human/non-human, self/other, and global/local.
Alluding to performativity of technology and performative construction of meaning, liminality, hybridity, and multiplicity, the process embraces theories of Philip Auslander and Richard Schechner; semiotics and embodied communications of Lacan, Foucoult, and others.
Alienation Project explores open borders between geographies and disciplines, physical and digital, dismantling constructed identities of genders, nationalities, races and classes and conveying the idea that “We are All One”. Here, collectiveSyntheticBodyMonsters, to create which audience, using smartphones, send images of their body parts to a real-time AI, is a new being free from the identifiers that aim to label a contemporary individual.
Uli Ap developed the "alien-to-the-idea-of-the-alien" choreography through intentionally glitching a dual motion capture system by displacing electrodes at points of contact with participants. This process creates humanly unattainable positions, which they then convert into a VR Film Stripe, draw and embody. A dual VR alien body is informed by collectiveSyntheticBodyMonsters and experienced in “Travelling VR Headsets” - until the alien body is “dissolved” by distributing electrodes of the alien electronic skin among participants. Ap subverts these tools to challenge conventional ideas of embodiment and position performance as a dynamic form of inquiry.
Ap initiated collectiveSyntheticBodyMonsters during Alien Artificial Intelligence
Experiment No.1 with Columbia DSL: https://www.uliap.com/alienation-ai
collectiveSyntheticBodyMonsters
bodyMonsters is a new being free from gender, nationality, race, place of birth, ethnicity, identity, and all the other identifiers that aim to label a contemporary individual in a dysfunctional society of a post-world.
They are created from individual bodyParts of individual beings that are extracted from their habitual body context and repositioned through "broken" technologies into the Alien Energy of AI.