
umbra
— In the
Digital Shadow
Audiovisual Performance by
Slava Romanov & Chi Him Chik
How does artificial intelligence reshape the relationship between »master« and »tool«? Where does the human end and the machine begin? And how do these technologies influence our perception and interaction with the world? The audiovisual performance umbra and its accompanying workshops invite the audience to discover their own interpretations of identity and consciousness in the digital age.
Musician and performer Chi Him Chik plays his self-developed improvisation machine Aiii and the multimedia instrument Type-0《零式》. At the same time, media artist Slava Romanov creates images that appear like digital shadows on a moving transparent screen. Movements, sounds, and light respond to one another in real time – forming a constantly shifting play between reality and its digital reflection.
Accompanying the show, free workshops with the artists will take place on Sat Dec 6, from 10:00 am—12:00 pm and 2:00 pm—4:00 pm. More information will be available shortly.
Oscillating and morphing between practices and identities, Hong Kong media artist and performer Chi Him Chik draws inspirations from the reflections of conflicts, dilemma, pain, and chaos of personal, social, and political experiences and events, while combining skills, knowledges, and aesthetics from different fields/genres and transforming his spectrum of artistic languages into performative experiences which one might find overwhelming, surreal, but unique.
Slava Romanov is a Bremen-based data artist and multimedia developer, originally from the Urals, Russia. He designs interactive systems that transform complex questions, stories and emotions into real-time visual and spatial experiences. Drawing on legal and digital media backgrounds, his internationally exhibited work investigates language, memory, and socio-political processes, challenging the binaries of chaos/order, simplicity/complexity, analysis/speculation, and human/machine.
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Credits
Concept/Direction & Performance: Slava Romanov & Chi Him Chik
Kinetic screen design & fabrication: Juan Camilo Luque, Leonard Spillner
External Communications: Alexandra Reinig
Co-production: Schwankhalle.
Funded by the Senator for Culture of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. With the kind support of: Schwankhalle Bremen, University of the Arts Bremen, We Dig It!, URBANSCREEN GmbH & Co. KG.