Immersive minimalism residency

Always Dead and Alive

Germany/Poland/Austria 2019

Introduction

Always Dead and Alive is an artwork by Theresa Schubert that was created as part of the STARTS Vertigo Residency (2019) entitled ‘Immersive Minimalism’ at PSNC (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center).

Story

It is an 8K video environment based on a custom Cellular Automata (CA) system. The generative video shows surprisingly complicated behavior that appears when all 33 million pixels on screen act as individual, interacting agents within a set network. Immersive Minimalism uses CA to investigate modes of perception through creating video scenarios between geometric abstraction and minimalism.

Challenges

Computation of native 8K content
Encoding in high quality of abstract content with high noise percentage
Data storage and handling (large quantities)

Gallery