A________Manifesto is a combination of a data sculpture, AR experience, and a generated text. A large collection of manifestos dating from the 17th Century until today have been transformed into 3D shapes by using text mining techniques that reconstruct linguistic contexts of words from the raw text data. Locally sourced mycelium fungus is used as filling material to create an organic living sculpture out of this digital hybridization. The AR experience is based on the points of the data cloud, in which every dot represents a word in corpus of the raw text.
Inside an abstract vector space derived from real-world language corpora, words become points in a n-dimensional space, where algebraic calculations operate on the syntactic and semantic creation of language. A combination of transformer-based architectures is used to generate a new manifesto that mimics human-written text. Donna Haraway, whose fingerprints are plastered all over science, art, and politics, informs the generated manifesto.
Funda Zeynep Aygüler is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Weimar. She has background studies in Architecture, graduated from Anadolu University with a degree in Animation, and is currently completing her master's degree in Media Art and Design at Bauhaus University Weimar. Her work is influenced by many cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary practices. She continues to explore her practice as a filmmaker, animator, photographer, and work and gain experience in an area focused on creative use and investigation of new media.
Interface Cultures Exhibition - Ars Electronica Festival 2021
