Myriam Bleau – Interview with A4
Watch the video interview conducted by A4 with media artist and musician Myriam Bleau.
Following on an excellent performance with luminous discs several years ago, this Canadian musician and multimedia artist returned to NEXT with a brand-new audiovisual show. Unsculpt, inspired by the work of Donna Haraway and the speculative architecture methodology, probes urban and natural settings created through conjunctions of human creativity and machine learning, sometimes ornately called artificial intelligence. Myriam Bleau plays on a laptop and modular synthesizer backed by a visual projection, giving motion to synthetic landscapes emerging on screen like dream fragments or faded postcards from an imaginary future. Inklings of human and natural structures – mountain ranges, shores, skyscrapers and facades – blend and converge in animated collage. AI algorithms allow a slow metamorphosis between textures and materials: from marble to silk, from concrete to meat.
The video is produced by A4 as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union and supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava City Foundation.
Video: Jos Leys & Michal Vasiľ