{"id":1469,"date":"2020-09-24T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nugu.lt\/us\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2024-02-09T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:47:09","slug":"swamp-intelligence-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Swamp Intelligence, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Swamp Crevasse, Bio-Cybernetic Brain, Mushroom Power Plant, Swamp Reference Library<\/em>, all meet as swamping figures in the Swamp Intelligence<\/em> exhibition, curated by L\u00fddia Pribi\u0161ov\u00e1 at Tranzit.sk<\/a> space in Bratislava, to unfold our interest in swamp as the interface to Gaia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figures through which we look into the world offer biological, digital, technological, historical and cultural facets of the swamp. Three thousand years old peat from the first scientifically researched swamp meets phantoms embodying hundreds of years of demonisation of the swamps moderns created as a way to deal with the uncanny, the unknown, the queer, the uncertain and the unstable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concept: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecture: Indr\u0117 Umbrasait\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research team: Nikola Boji\u0107, Kristupas Sabolius<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programming: Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, Jonas Kubilius<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic design: Gail\u0117 Pranck\u016bnait\u0117, Serge Rompza <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific advisors: Vesta Aleknavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, J\u016brat\u0117 Send\u017eikait\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supported by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Durpeta UAB<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special thanks to: Gintaras Rapkauskas and Sigita Kantautien\u0117 \/ Durpeta UAB<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Swamp Intelligence Crevasse<\/em>, created in collaboration with artificial intelligence scientist Jonas Kubilius (Three Thirds, Lithuania) is a hybrid (self)rendered by the swamp and a machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is based on a NoPlace Neural Network (NNN), a variant of a conditional AI (Artificial Intelligence), used to unveil neural network abilities to generate novel visual imagery. The NNN has two components that work in opposition: a generator that is learning how to generate an image from a noise pattern and a discriminator that tries to guess which image is real and which is generated. The NNN works to find ways to organically combine its architectural proposals into existing landscapes. Being based on foundations of strict logic and lacking context, the machine quite paradoxically becomes less restricted to imagine than the artist who sets it up, producing rather unsettling imagery for an observer to interpret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swamp is a figure of holobiontic relationships between the species and their roles in a production of sympoietic cycles, including flows of energy from physical to metaphysical. The Biotope Model<\/em>, created in collaboration with biologists Vesta Aleknavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 and J\u016brat\u0117 Send\u017eikait\u0117, and processing programmer Thomas Sanchez Lengeling (MIT Media Lab), renders an animated map in flux of the relationships in the living community of Auk\u0161tumala swamp, where every member is part of every other member\u2019s  environment, as well as necessary for the survival of the whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Swamp Reference Library<\/em> of 278 images, designed in collaboration with Gail\u0117 Pranck\u016bnait\u0117, presents how the uncanny of swamp is widely reflected in films, literature and popular culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout history, moderns produced their environment by draining swamps, marshes, and wetlands. Dividing the land into liquid and solid, butchering the territory for agriculture, waterways, and settlements, extracting and parceling it by expelling the indigenous\u2014all are technologies of moderns and colonization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1902 German botanist Carl Albert Weber conducted a world\u2018s First Scientific Study of Swamps<\/em>. From the Imperial German observatory of swamps Weber travelled to East Prussia wetlands \u2013 present site of Auk\u0161tumala swamp in Lithuania – to study the swamps and build the Taxonomy of peat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mushroom Power Plant is a mycoglomerate that catalyses the symbiotic relationship between mud bacteria and mushroom. It utilizes Geobacter bacteria found in swamps that gains its energy by using iron oxide (an abundant rust-like mineral in soils and sediments) in the same way humans use oxygen. A mud element is connected with the component of carbonized mushroom slurry that replaces the graphite typicaly used in conventional battery production.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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