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• Špela Petrič: PL'AI
• Sigrún Hardarðottír: Permutation(s)

Programme

• 17:00—20:00 Špela Petrič: PL'AI

  As part of Brno Museum Night, Vasulka Kitchen Brno has prepared a curated program in collaboration with artist Špela Petrič.  The artist, whose intermedia work explores the relationships between plants or other living organisms and technology, will present the PL'AI project. It is a site-specific installation in the form of a three-channel video projection, which will be on display in the Vasulka Kitchen Brno only during Brno Museum Night. The program will include the opening and presentation of the PL'AI installation at 5 PM, in which Špela Petrič will present her research and the PLANT-MACHINE project.

  PL'AI is part of the PLANT-MACHINE opus and works with the notion of play as an ontological condition for all living bodies, including plants. The project represents a several-month-long process in which interacted growing plants and a robot with artificial intelligence, whose perception of the world was limited to them. Their interactions, referring to a game that transcends the human understanding of time, provide insights into artificial intelligence and how it can be shaped by the plant, and in turn, highlight the morphology of the plant marked by the robot's interventions. 

  Špela Petrič works with new media and natural sciences. Her artistic practice connects biomedia and its performativity, exploring the relationships between bodies that reveal the foundations of our (bio)technological societies and proposing alternatives for their possible coexistence. She has received several awards, including the White Aphroid (Slovenia), the Bioart and Design Award (Netherlands) and the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica (Austria). 

• 17:00—20:00 Sigrún Hardarðottír: Permutation(s)

  Exhibition open during the Brno Museum Night​​​​​Sigrún Hardarðottír has long worked with the theme of Gaia and the affinity between human expression and natural forces.  In the exhibition project Permutation(s) the artist has prepared a multimedia installation connecting Icelandic nature and a survey of Brno and its surrounding forests (Holedná in Jundrov or Soběšice) realized in the autumn of 2023. Permutation(s) is an interactive multimedia installation conceived as a conversation precisely between these two contrasting worlds — on the one hand Brno, a busy Central European historical city nestled in the heart of South Moravia, a land lush with vegetation home to diverse flora and fauna and on the other hand Iceland, a land of volcanos, ocean waters, geisers and waterfalls significantly more barren. The installation poses a series of questions and thematizes subjective experiences of reality in confrontation with commonly presumed facts of understanding landscape, nature, and technology. 
  

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