Anna Soz Practical Independence
Garage Archive Commissions
NOBODY KNOWS FOR CERTAIN
Afrah Shafiq
Station Radio. Season 2
Computer Class: World Gone By
Fragile Archive
Outsourcing Paradise, 2020
eeefff
Never Agency, 2020
Sara Culmann
The Ultimate Science, 2020
Valentin Golev
All Dungeons Will Fall. 2020
Aleksei Taruts
Machinic Infrastructures of Truth, 2020
Anna Engelhardt
The Tool
Mikhail Maksimov
Catastrophe, an episode from the video game Yuha’s Nightmares
Yulia Kozhemyako (supr)
Reborn. 2020
German Lavrovsky
Xerces Blau, 2019
James Ferraro and Ezra Miller

Specially for the exhibition The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 and Garage Digital, musician and artist James Ferraro has composed Xerces Blau, a music piece with a visual accompaniment developed by artist Ezra Miller using generative adversarial networks.

Xerces Blau (the title refers to Glaucopsyche xerces, an extinct butterfly species) expounds on the themes visited by Ferraro on his latest album Requiem for Recycled, released in spring 2019, with both pieces reflecting on human civilization’s intervention into natural processes and its impact on the course of evolution.

The four-part visuals, developed with the implementation of machine learning, feature dynamic hybrid imagery in which shots of butterflies and plants are overlaid with scary views of environmental catastrophes, real and fictional man-made landscapes, random urban photographs, and reproductions of artworks. By mixing together the natural and the anthropogenic, Miller visualizes the feeling of overabundance resulting from cultural and technical overproduction.

In the extinction of the species Glaucopsyche xerces the artists see a warning to humanity, which could itself become a victim of ecocide if people continue on the course of destructive progress.

 

James Ferraro

An American composer and musician. His music, primarily studio albums, is known for exploring a variety of subjects that can be grouped under the umbrella of post-9/11 world order theory. Ferraro’s pieces uniquely address specific modern subjects, incorporating themes of 21st-century consumerism, cybernetics, emaciation , social experience in digital environments, hyperreality, ecological disasters, and the collapse of civilization. He began his music career in the early 2000s as a member of the Californian drone/noise duo The Skaters, after which he began focusing on solo work under his name and a wide variety of aliases. Ferraro received wider recognition in 2011, when his album Far Side Virtual was chosen as Album of the Year by The Wire. Born in New York, Ferraro currently lives in Berlin.
Ezra Miller

An artist working across many digital disciplines to create real-time generative art, interactive websites, live performances, and immersive experiences. He has extensive experience working with electronic musicians representing the labels Warp Records and LukyMe, as an art director, web developer, and VJ. Miller has also collaborated with Adidas, Alexander Wang, and Balenciaga, co-authoring (together with John Rafman) digital animation for Balenciaga’s Spring/Summer 2019 fashion show. At the age of 20, he received the ADC Young Guns Award, becoming one of the youngest winners of the prize. Miller lives and works in New York.
Those Who, 2019
Sascha Pohflepp
Russian Ferations, 2019
Posthuman Studies Lab
FOOOD 2050, 2014–2019
Gints Gabrāns
IAM, 2018
Exhibition project
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