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Quantum Echoes of Humanity

When: Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Where: Origins Centre
Start time:17:00
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tammy.hodgskiss@wits.ac.za

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tammy.hodgskiss@wits.ac.za

Renzo Filinich and InterLab's body of work responds to the urgency of ecological crisis as a crisis of imagination.

This work emerges from an ongoing trans-atlantic collaboration between colleagues in Brazil and South Africa, opening new global south epistemologies. The work's algorithmic imaging and sonification of the anthropological collection of the Origins Centre moves away from a focus on representation to embody a collision of knowledge systems. The work speaks to Sylvia Wynter's idea of the human as a multiple and complex form of relational being, inseparable from language, narrative and context. The algorithm works with facial recognition software, but builds in possibilities for recursion and even mis-recognition, undoing the logics of surveillance, and the racial and gendered codes that haunt computational models. The work invites interactive viewing from the audience, making space for multiple modulations that never produce the same image twice. Exhibition on until 12 October 2024

'Quantum Echoes of Humanity'

 

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