The Beautiful Robot Magasin 3 asked me to make a piece outside their entrance as part of their 20th anniversary exhibition "To be continued...". I decided to build a pavillion. Normally I choose dark spaces for my art, so working in daylight I used a more agressive, less organic style. Inside the pavillion there is a 8 minute video loop. Part of it is filmed in a super reflective environment with people in reflective skinsuits (I also had to wear a reflective suit while filming, not to distort the images with my reflection!). So what you see in those images is a djungle of infinite reflections. The soundtrack of the film consists of a speech by three electronic voices. The story, if one can call it that, is planted in the same futuristic vision that I established in the video "The Gentle People of Utopia". The text is an attempt to emotionally come to terms with the prospect of conscious, emotional machines with intentions and experiences. Experiences of colour and beauty. For some reason, the experience of colour has often provoked ideas about subjective relativism. It has been questioned if we really have the same experience when we say "this is blue", for example. Colour vision is a highly evolved instrument, its harder to explain by common intuition than senses like audition and touch. I actually never heard relativist theories inspired by touch and sound, and I hardly think thats a coincidence. For these senses, its to obvious to most people that we have similar sensations because our sensory equipment is basicly the same. But of course this applies to vision as well. I think my experience of subjectivity is the result of my nervous system not being physicly connected to other organisms, rather than an ultimately separate realm to which only I could ever have acess.
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