manτεία | Show | WestK

manτεία evolved from a series of artistic workshops led by Roberto Alonso Trillo and Peter Nelson, where artists were encouraged to create digital creative bridges, where a signal from one artwork might drive an action in another - a process known as multimodal mapping. In this 60-minute performance, audiences will witness a giant mechanical sculpture that creates a musical heartbeat that drives another work made purely from light, sound, and smoke. The irregular rhythm of the giant clock is amplified via a bank of subwoofers to drive turbulence through a tower of smoke, which is then translated by a computer into animation and sound. The central human performer in manτεία acts as an oracle, who speaks for two AI models, one trained on works of Western philosophy and one trained on Chinese classics. These two AI systems provide unique perspectives on the artworks in manτεία and explore how we might relate to a future driven by the automated wisdom of such cultural calculating machines.

manτεία 由Roberto Alonso Trillo 和Peter Nelson 領導的一系列藝術研討會演變而來，鼓勵藝術家創建數位創意橋樑，一件藝術品的信號可能會驅動另一件藝術品的行動，這一過程被稱為多模態映射。在這場 60 分鐘的表演中，觀眾將目睹一座巨大的機械雕塑，它創造出音樂性的心跳，驅動另一件純粹由光、聲音和煙霧創造而成的作品。巨型時鐘的不規則節奏透過一組低音炮被放大，透過煙霧塔驅動湍流，然後由電腦將其轉換為動畫和聲音。 「manτεία」中的核心人類表演者扮演著一位神諭者的角色，他為兩個人工智慧模型說話，一種接受西方哲學著作的訓練，另一種接受中國經典的訓練。這兩個人工智慧系統為人類的藝術作品提供了獨特的視角，並探索我們如何與由這種文化電腦的自動化智慧驅動的未來建立聯繫。