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Conservation of Shadows in the ZKM

Artists: Artificial Nature (Haru Ji & Graham Wakefield) - https://artificialnature.net/ Exhibition: Biomedia, The Age of Media with Life-Like Behavior - https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2021/12/... Venue: ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021-12-18 - 2022-08-28 Materials: 0.5 cubic meters of salt, 4x ESP32 microcontrollers, 56x vibration motor-driven bells, 2x LiDar sensors, 3x projectors, 2x HTC VIVE Pro HMDs, 2x PCs, custom software Conservation of Shadows in the ZKM is a mixed reality eco-systemic habitat where humans can engage with unfamiliar life-like creatures in infinite feedback. The work responds to the specific memories and imaginations of the host venue ZKM as a former munitions factory, then industrial site, then future-oriented media art center, with stories of a secretly closed basement. Invisible unknown beings seem to explore the space around us - ghostly shadows passing across the salty floor, chasing and mingling with our own shadows, and whistling past the small bells, making them ring. Entering virtual reality, visitors dive deeper into an artificial ecosystem cohabiting in superposition with our own. What first appeared as shadows on the floor is unveiled to be an entire biome moving around us: curious based snake/bullet-like metallic entities searching for anything new in the world, smaller bolt-like builders seeking out ephemeral traces of being and behaviour, and weaving longer memories into a constantly growing mycelial structures of conducting colours and motions, like networks of neurons in a brain. Neither completely programmed nor entirely random, they leave enough room for collective self-determined growth. Here, sounds and shadows work as a bridge between physical and invisible realms. In this sensitively endogenous world, all sensorial components have intrinsic functions. All continuously build inter-relationships among themselves, including us humans. Its alienation awakens us to the weirder and wilder nature beyond the human-centered world-as-we-know-it; as a vitally playful and curious art-as-it-could-be. On-site footage © 2022 ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Videography by Xenia Leidig, Johanna Ott. In-VR footage © 2022 Artificial Nature, Videography by Haru Ji & Graham Wakefield.