Explore the imaginative capacity of AI with Daniel Jenatsch's first foray into playable video-based art.
Learning to collaborate with the non-human will soon be an essential skill. ‘The Building’ is part five of an ongoing series of works, The Close World, an experiment of fantasy world-building in collaboration with human and non-human actors. Written in collaboration with OpenAI’s GPT-3 trained on key texts of fantasy and philosophy of language, ‘The Building’ is realised in 3D sound and vision by Daniel Jenatsch, performed by artist and philosopher Franziska Aigner and brought to the world by full stack web developer Tim Busuttil. In the spirit of collaboration, ‘The Building’ explores the imaginative capacity of AI and it’s unique voice in intersection with our own.
The Close World – The Building is a further iteration of a larger body of work by Daniel Jenatsch. This is the first time Jenatsch has ever considered making a playable video-based work.
To get to the Close World we must come to this world of terrors. We must touch the return of the time, the innocent earth beneath the grass of words. To get to The Close World we must flock amongst the birds.
About Daniel Jenatsch
Daniel Jenatsch is an Australian composer and artist who combines atmospheric soundscapes, music and video to create multimedia documentaries, installations, radio pieces and performances. Jenatsch’s highly detailed sonic and moving image works examine how knowledge systems and power influence our social and mental ecologies.
Tim Busuttil
Tim Busuttil is a queer developer living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land. They’re interested in programming as a medium for experimentation, poetry and play. Their work explores generative text and interactive narrative as frameworks for multivalent storytelling.
Franziska Aigner
Franziska Aigner works at the intersection of philosophy, performance and music. In 2020 she completed her PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), London on the topic of Kant and Technics. Complementing her philosophical work, she has studied at P.A.R.T.S., the school of choreography and dance in Brussels directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and worked with Anne Imhof on the performances Deal, Rage, Angst and Faust (awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2017), as well as for William Forsythe, Mette Ingvartsen, Alexandra Bachzetsis and others. Her own works have been shown at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels; Die Liste, Basel; Theatre de la Bastille, Paris; The Place, London; brut, Vienna; HAU, Berlin and more.
Credits
3D Modelling and Sound
Daniel Jenatsch
Voices and cello
Franziska Aigner
Web development
Tim Busuttil
With thanks to Claudia Greathead, Benjamin Creek, Isabella Hone-Saunders, ACMI and The John Fries Award.
Gallery 5
Explore art that reflects, celebrates and interrogates the internet and digital culture through a series of free virtual exhibitions and performances.