Exhibition Opening
Man Tin Lai: Eastern Wisdom Extracting Machine

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Man Tin Lai: Eastern Wisdom Extracting Machine on Monday 14 October 2024 at 6pm in the gallery G99 (House of the Lords of Kunštát). The exhibition will be open with attendance of Man Tin Lai, Jana Horáková and Barbora Trnková.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The title of the exhibition refers to AI-machine learning technology as a knowledge extraction tool – "[AI as] an instrument of knowledge magnification that helps to perceive features, patterns, and correlations through vast spaces of data beyond human reach." (Pasquinelli and Joler) – contributing to the expansion Noosphere* of planet Earth. The exhibition will feature an AI-generated video that revives the legacy of traditional Chinese landscape painting Shan Shui in fusion with the Eastern teaching of geomancy called Fen Shui. Landscape images are enriched with the dimensions of depth and time using Gaussian rendering technology. Their permutations and transformations, performed by artificial intelligence, follow both the rules that were established for the depiction of landscapes within the Shan Shui school and the formal teaching of Feng Shui about the laws of spatial arrangement that support the flow of life energy. The result is a poetic audio-visual work in which a database of reproductions of landscape paintings is transformed into a living stream of natural scenery, in which landscapes embodying the harmonious coexistence of nature, cosmic forces and human knowledge evolve from the shared code of Eastern wisdom.

*Noosphere (sphere of reason); a unified whole in which evolving society and nature merge, influencing each other in the closest possible way; the area of ​​interaction between society and nature, in which human activity is the main factor of development. The term was first used by French philosopher and mathematician Édouard Le Roy in 1927, inspired by the work of geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and biochemist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. (Wikipedia)

The exhibition takes place as part of the Prototype Festival, Brno Creative Days and AI Days Brno.

Organizers: 
TIM - Theory of Interactive Media FF MU
VISUALOVE
Brno Creative Days

Co-organisers:
The Statutory City of Brno
South Moravian Region