Immersive Arts Space
The Immersive Arts Space (IASpace) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) is aninterdisciplinary lab focused on a critical approach to new technologes through art and design and a critical approach to art and design through new technologies. Consisting of a team of research associates- with expertise in interaction design, game design, computer music, film production, computer science, performance studies and practice and sociology of science, the IASpace explores digital immersion, XR, Ai and the convergence of media-based and performative practices while socially-critically reflecting on these practices.
reconFIGURE
reconFIGURE is a real time installation exploring how diverse human bodies are re-imagined by computing machines. The visitors’ frontal image is first captured by a camera, and using machine learning, transformed from a 2D image into an animated 3D avatar in a matter of seconds.
As the visitors’ encounter their re-animated selves on the screens, they bear witness to the mutations generated by the machine processes Thus, through the transformation of bodies by way of increasingly black boxed AI systems, reconFIGURE probes how we will negotiate the truth between our own image and that image as reimagined by machines.
