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QLIMATE QRONOBOT

30. October 2023 /

QLIMATE QRONOBOT. AI and the future of our planet

Exhibition by Maria Korporal with installation and videos

QLIMATE QRONOBOT. Installation by Maria Korporal, Berlin 2024

QLIMATE QRONOBOT. Installation by Maria Korporal, Berlin 2024

19.7. – 16.8.2024, Tuesdays and Fridays 17- 20 h

Can AI help us combat climate change? What are the possibilities? Are there any contradictions?

The artist will set up a site-specific multimedia installation in the gallery. She asked an online AI: “Imagine you are the Qlimate Qronobot, and I ask you what you can do to fight the climate crisis and save our planet, what would you answer?” The artist incorporated the answers into her installation. She projects a dystopian 360° landscape onto the walls. The “Qlimate Qronobot” rotates in the center. This is a physical robot-like figure made of cubes printed with scannable black and white codes on all sides. These can call up various augmented reality displays: an animated, multi-colored interplay of analog chalk drawings and AI-generated shapes and texts, and smaller virtual cubes that move around in a virtuoso ball game. A webcam captures the room with the augmented reality scenes, which cannot be seen with the naked eye, and projects the overall image into the neighboring room. The gray tones of the 360-degree landscape turn into rainbow colors. Guests can scan the robot with their smartphones and look inside it.

The work is part of the comprehensive work-in-progress project “Qorporal Quests“. In a series of multimedia installations, Maria Korporal questions the global digital development and uses combinations of analog and digital techniques. The artist will also be showing a selection of her videos that deal with sustainability, the environment and climate change.

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The artist presents her Qlimate Qronobot © Maria Korporal. Click on the picture to open the video.

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The installation “Qlimate Qronobot” in the exhibition © Maria Korporal. Click on the image to open the video

 

Program

19.7., 7 p.m. Vernissage, introduction to the exhibition Tom Albrecht

 


26.7, 7 pm, lecture and discussion “AI and climate change: opportunities and risks”, Dr. Friederike Rohde, IÖW

9.8., 7 pm, artist talk. The artist talks with guests about her works. Moderation Tom Albrecht

16.8., 7 pm, finissage, performance: “Live-Looping Performance”. Stephan Groß and Marcus Urruh, improvising with voice, guitar, didgeridoo, bansuri flute, melodica, percussion and synthesizer.

Cocuration Tom Albrecht, 65th exhibition of GG3

 

Qlimate Qronobot Flyer

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Sticky post

Spin doctors

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Peanuts (detail), Brigitte Nolden, Rosengarten, 2024

Organized suppression of the climate crisis

One actor is, for example, the Springer press, whose publishing house is largely owned by fossil fuel investors, as well as AFD, so-called “lateral thinkers”. “It’s always been hot in summer”, “That’s a good thing!”, “Just the weather”, “Fear-mongering and scaremongering”, “He who believes will be saved”, “Belief in man-made climate change as a substitute for religion?” Cognitive scientists have developed a toolkit called PLURV to help identify disinformation and propaganda in relation to the climate crisis: Pseudo-experts, logical errors, unfulfillableexpectations, cherry-pickingand conspiracy mythsare all identifying features. In Germany, the CDU and FDP parties are conducting a textbook delaying discourse: they have no proposals. It’s really not about political ideologies, it’s about defending fossil business models. Displacement leads to aggression against, for example, meteorologists on TV who receive hate messages. You only believe what you want to believe. Researchers talk about dissonant information being devalued and consonant information being valorized. The fact that humanity is in the process of destroying the foundations of human life with its way of life generates unpleasant emotions: Feelings of guilt, fears, sadness about the squandered future, the inevitable suffering and death. Cognitive dissonance, that is. In this case, pseudo-information that suggests that everything is not so bad may have an exculpatory effect.

Participating artists: Tom Albrecht, Stephan Groß, Pia Höhfeld, Vera Leisibach, Christine Lengtat, Vera Menold, Brigitte Nolden, Riiko Sakkinen, Andrea Streit (Collective: Thinking of Yves), Violetta Vollrath, Lioba von den Driesch, Misha Waks

The book accompanying the exhibition:

Men who burn the world. C. Stöcker, 4th ed. 2024, Ullstein Publ.

Men who burn the world.
C. Stöcker, 4th ed.
2024, Ullstein Publ.

Program

Exhibition duration: 11.10. – 22.11.2024
The gallery is open during the exhibition period on Tuesdays and Fridays from 5 to 8 pm and by appointment.

Fr. 11.10.2024, 7 pm: Vernissage with introduction to the exhibition by art historian Katja Andrea Hock

25.10.2024, 7 pm: Artist talk Artists from the exhibition talk about their works on site and online with guests.
Moderation Katja Andrea Hock

08.11.2024, 7 pm: Lecture with discussion “Seeing through the brakes of transformation. Recognizing disinformation and propaganda about the climate crisis. Debunking: pseudo-experts, logical errors, unfulfillable expectations, cherry-picking, conspiracy myths.”, Scientists for Future (requested)

15.11.2024, 7 pm: Lecture with workshop “Der eigene ökologische Hand- und Fußabdruck. Limits and possibilities”, Tom Albrecht

22.11.2024, 7 pm: Finissage with fire performance by Pia Höhfeld

 

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