SubnetAIR 2023

Xuanning Chen repeatedly develops musical instruments as part of her artistic work. In Salzburg she is working on a prototype for her project called CUT, which was inspired by a cultural practice of the 1990s: trading and collecting of discarded CDs.

In the 1990s, China imported plastic waste from Western countries on a large scale, including broken CDs that were destroyed and cut by record companies. In China, these CDs were traded on the black market and collected by music lovers despite their damage. A vibrant culture developed. Xuanning Chen's project investigates this phenomenon. For this purpose, the artist developed a prototype for a device that reads the colors on the CDs and transforms them into music.

What Xuanning particularly appreciated about her residency was the opportunity to work with HCI scientists and use their know-how to implement her project. “It feels a bit like I’m back at university,” she says in the interview.

During his subnet residency, Neo Christopher Chung is working on an installation entitled "coincidentally and inevitably, in a place we never thought of". The project allows different Large Language Models to communicate with each other in a “therapy session”.

Our activities and feelings are analyzed, predicted, and modified by omnipresent AI. Simultaneously, we barely understand complex algorithms that are re-shaping the society. In his performative installation, Neo Christopher Chung draws attention to this fact, while at the same time exploring the complex interplay between society and technology.

For Liv Tsim, a key goal of her work is to raise awareness of issues such as the conservation of nature and the interaction of different species. These concerns also influence her work as an artist in residency in Salzburg.

During her residency, Liv Tsim will focus on questions of swarm intelligence and life under water. In the interview, she reveals what this approach has to do with AI.

For Liv Tsim, her residency in Salzburg is an ideal starting point for further work on the project, as the stay offers valuable opportunities to exchange thoughts and flesh out ideas.

The New Liquidity combines research from several areas: sound and media art, art in public spaces, the area of ​​location-based media and technologies, and the area of ​​sensory studies and emotional geographies. By focusing on the urban landscape, they aim not only to propose the transformation of familiar soundscapes through the promotion of a mobility of the self, but above all to address deterritorialization in the context of cultural globalization and distancing from locality brought about by mediatization, migration and commercialization of the life was developed under global capital.

At subnetAIR, Boskailo and Ehlin developed a site-specific immersive binaural sound walk as part of their project De-territorialized Listenings. This is intended to serve as a presentation format for their research and aims to offer strategies for dismantling the hegemony of our often limited sensory and imaginative structures.

As part of their residency, Selma and Anders spent several weeks in Salzburg. We wanted to know how they benefited from the residency and whether they enjoyed the exchange with local scientists.