Layering machine-hallucinated sound and buried environmental traces
Woven All of Dream and Error is an exhibition presenting a collection of films, images, and sounds that consider the overlap of two areas of the history of technology: the sites of abandoned railway lines, and the emergence of machine learning — or what has popularly come to be referred to as artificial intelligence.
The exhibition, which takes its title from a poem written in 1918 by the Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa, investigates the artistic and practical implications of the overlap of these two technologies.
The exhibition presents a series of walks, undertaken by the artists, along the paths of now-disused railway routes. In these walks, the artists carry portable speakers, playing the sound of machine-learning-generated audio of invented trains: sound that has been hallucinated by contemporary computational technology, and which is juxtaposed with the remains of disappearing layers of the built environment.
These walks are materially presented as a series of interlocking short films, with accompanying image grids and maps. The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book and a series of unique lathe-cut records — further details are given below.
Woven All of Dream and Error will be presented at Hošek Contemporary, the unique Berlin art space housed on a repurposed barge in the river Spree, in September 2024.
Woven All of Dream and Error began through a process of walking. Over the course of four years, Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty undertook a series of walks along the paths of now-disused railway routes in Berlin and Brandenburg, which they filmed as they walked. In these walks, they also carried portable speakers, playing the sound of machine-learning-generated audio of invented trains: sound that has been hallucinated by contemporary computational technology. [...] These films are explorations of traces left behind, cinematic studies of incisions in the land.
— Harley Aussoleil · Excerpted from Woven All of Dream and Error: Hallucinations and Remnants (Estovers Editions, 2024)
Excerpts from Woven All of Dream and Error lathe-cut record series
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Woven All of Dream and Error · Video still
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Woven All of Dream and Error · Video still
- Vernissage
- Thursday, 12. September 2024 · 7pm
- Discussion event
- Saturday, 14. September 2024 · 5pm
- Finissage
- Sunday. 15. September, 2024 · 7pm · With live set by KvT at 8:30pm
- Exhibition dates
- Wednesday, 11. September – Sunday, 15. September, 2024 · 12 noon to 9pm daily
Please note that these dates also include a preview day on Wednesday, September 11., the day before the Vernissage - Location
- Hošek Contemporary, Fischerinsel, Berlin · Google Maps · Apple Maps · Open Street Map