
Endgame
AV Performance
Duration: 30 min.
Sunday, 12 June 2022 | 20:00 > 20:302022-06-12T20:00:00.000Z | Room 2
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of children, usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.
As we are at the moment at the beginning of the so-called Holocene extinction we created Endgame to draw attention to it. This performance deals with the connection of different creatures and their extinction. Our virtual life forms grow and thrive, they influence each other, explore their surroundings, mate with others and little by little, they die. The extinction of species sets in.
Spectators of this event are invited to observe - and hear - the mesmerizing spectacle and the devastating end of existence, without the ability to intervene.
The audience can influence the sounds generated by the installation by moving virtual ears via their smartphones to individual points of the scene. These ears generate signals that are evaluated by our synthesizers and thus control the performance together with us.
As we are at the moment at the beginning of the so-called Holocene extinction we created Endgame to draw attention to it. This performance deals with the connection of different creatures and their extinction. Our virtual life forms grow and thrive, they influence each other, explore their surroundings, mate with others and little by little, they die. The extinction of species sets in.
Spectators of this event are invited to observe - and hear - the mesmerizing spectacle and the devastating end of existence, without the ability to intervene.
The audience can influence the sounds generated by the installation by moving virtual ears via their smartphones to individual points of the scene. These ears generate signals that are evaluated by our synthesizers and thus control the performance together with us.
Author
- timodufner is a musician, visual artists and scientist in the field of media and information technology. As a VJ, he perform as an AudioVideo Live Act while he is also part of various production teams in electronic music. The main focus of his work lies in the exploitation of software failures, so called glitches, real time processing, live coding, machine learning as well as the direct interaction of sound and image. Past performances took place at the ZKM (Centre for...
- „das Shining“ collective is a group of interdisciplinary media and computer experts who studied media informatics together in Tübingen before expanding their expertise in other academic fields.
Timo Dufner is a musician and visual artist, part time working at the music academy Trossingen in the field of music design. Mathias Schlenker is an software engineer with broad knowledge and experience for realizing big software projects. Jens Schindel is a self employed software engineer with focus on AI, computer vision and signal...


