Il Giornale dell'Arte published a review of the 2024 edition of the Biennale de 'Image en Mouvement at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève.
"We are at the edge of reality, at the point where Artificial Intelligence is able to recreate another, credible and active reality. The one that in "Gospel" , a video sculpture by the Belgian Emmanuel Van der Auwera, insinuates itself into the point of contact between a dazzling vertical sheet of white light and a black, mirrored horizontal one of identical size. In the conjunction between light and dark, visions imprisoned in a crooked dimension are revealed. They flow, weaving together stories that come from a totally regenerated world. There is a story of an immense mine of "rare earths", located in an area of China that is kept secret but which the computer is able to show thanks to the device that transforms information into images. We witness a poetic and loving conversation between the artist and Caryn, a creature of Artificial Intelligence. Thanks to the algorithms of a digital program, ruins in inaccessible war zones are documented. And we wonder how much direct human experience can still resist in the face of the altering force of a reality so well artificially recreated."
Read the full article by Alessandra Mammi (in Italian) here
