Tales of the Limit

Bio-art installation

Aksiniya Peicheva (Bulgaria)  

Tales of the Limit is an interdisciplinary project, in which the artist Aksiniya Peycheva works in collaboration with Martin Yordanov (physicist) and Yordanka Dermendjieva (microbiologist)

The project is a constant dialogue between visual art, artificial intelligence and microbiology. During this process occurs a constant transfer of the same visual information between these three fundamentally different fields. 

The project explores how the visual information becomes an indicator of the functionality of the whole system and calls into question the efficiency of the natural laws of communication on a fundamental level. Each transfer damages parts of it, but it also reflects upon the very nature of the system it belongs to. The same way the AI decides to put a pixel on a particular place, the bacteria decides how the visual image would look like only following different laws – those of nature – since this time their purpose is also fundamentally different, related to their survival. Thus, the result is quite different – an (almost) ruined human image.

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