Stroj extrahující východní moudrost / Eastern Wisdom Extracting Machine
| Title in English | Eastern Wisdom Extracting Machine |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Exposition |
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| Description | The exhibition presents a video created by artificial intelligence that brings to life the wisdom of traditional Chinese landscape painting and geomancy. The title of the exhibition refers to AI-machine learning technology as a knowledge extraction tool – "[AI as] an instrument of knowledge magnification that helps to perceive features, patterns, and correlations through vast spaces of data beyond human reach." (Pasquinelli and Joler) – contributing to the expansion Noosphere* of planet Earth. The exhibition will feature an AI-generated video that revives the legacy of traditional Chinese landscape painting Shan Shui in fusion with the Eastern teaching of geomancy called Feng Shui. Landscape images are enriched with the dimensions of depth and time using Gaussian rendering technology. Their permutations and transformations, performed by artificial intelligence, follow both the rules that were established for the depiction of landscapes within the Shan Shui school and the formal teaching of Feng Shui about the laws of spatial arrangement that support the flow of life energy. The result is a poetic audio-visual work in which a database of reproductions of landscape paintings is transformed into a living stream of natural scenery, in which landscapes embodying the harmonious coexistence of nature, cosmic forces and human knowledge evolve from the shared code of Eastern wisdom. |