Michael Spranger
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Das Fremde is a colony of robotic agents who create their own language. Their culture is then exposed to the disruption from visitors: human beings. Will the agents’ culture evolve, incorporating our culture into theirs? Will the audience feel empathy with this new species? Is a dialogue possible when both languages and appearance are totally different? Das Fremde deeply questions our relationship to artificial intelligence and machines. Through the installation, robots and humans have a chance to share tim
Concept & Realisation: Michael Spranger & Stéphane Noël AI Programming: Michael Spranger ( Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. ) Visualisations: Supermafia Special thanks to Laurent Novac ( GarageCUBE ) Production: Michael Spranger & Stéphane Noël, in co-production with Digital Brainstorming (Zurich). Made with the support of Migros Cultural Percentage , Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art , Ernst Göhner Stiftung & Canton de Vaud .
Das Fremde was invited to join the 2020 Yamagata Biennale and continue its cultural exploration in a new environment. Since the Covid-19 pandemic disallowed the public to visit the colony in person, three agents attended via Zoom and met their audience remotely.
Michael Spranger
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