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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Pattern of Activation (random forest)
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantKatja Novitskova
- VenueLa Caldereria
Pattern of Activation (random forest), 2024 © Katja Novitskova. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Cecília Coca
The Estonian artist Katja Novitskova is interested in the footage of wildlife taken by heat- and motion-detecting trail cameras. To create Pattern of Activation (random forest), Novitskova used an artificial intelligence programme to merge sets of photographs of unsuspecting wildlife made using such cameras that have been uploaded onto citizen science platforms. The sets include photographs from around the world, including the Iberian Peninsula. In the resulting work, animals morph into one another as part of a single, continuous visual landscape. From the artist’s perspective, the obsession with capturing nature’s inhabitants using technological apparatuses is indicative of a human desire to control, map and demarcate – a colonialist endeavour of ecological surveillance. Her slow-paced film denies and challenges the urge to classify and categorise, poetically capturing “the extreme present” populated by hybrid beings.
2024
HD video, black and white, sound, 20’00”
2400 × 1800 px
Original score by Kareem Lotfy
Courtesy of the artist
Supported by Ammodo
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