A new multi-disciplinary visual arts projection by Metacreation Lab members Jonas Kaarsch and Philippe Pasquier has launched in downtown Kelowna’s Cultural District. Titled Autolume Acedia, it is part of the digital urban screen series Light Up Kelowna.
A product of the latest Creative AI and Deep Learning algorithms from the Metacreation Lab at Simon Fraser University, Autolume Acedia is a hallucinatory meditation on the ancient emotion called acedia. Acedia describes a mixture of contemplative apathy, nervous nostalgia, and paralyzed angst. Greek monks first described this emotion two millennia ago, and it captures the paradoxical state of being simultaneously bored and anxious.
While music plays, the Autolume, a video generation system that automates live music visualization, dreams about bodies, organs, and bones, synthesizing abstract visuals dancing responsively to the sounds.
The projections are free to view and will be shown on the exterior of the Rotary Centre for the Arts (421 Cawston Ave.) from 6:00 pm to 12:30 am for the month of February. |