THE POLICY OF WATER. [Collaborative AI reading], 2023.
Video Essay on laptop, 13:49. Four AI actors. iPhone video and fictional words by Alice Pedroletti. Words extract from Solution 295-304, Mare Amoris. Courtesy of Ingo Niermann. With contributions by Marah J. Hardt & Eduardo Navarro. Sternberg Press, 2020.
In 2022, I was invited by Latra, a non-profit organisation based in Lesvos, to participate in several activities conducted by Artsformation and to create an “artistic provocation” for a workshop during the Berlin Transmediale Festival 2023.
I conceived my intervention with a ‘video essay’ realised during an art residency on Schwanenwerder Island in Berlin, deciding to work on the architecture of the place, the ‘flow of time’ in contemplating the landscape and my relationship with technology. Living for three months in one of the few houses on the island and having private access to the water, I began to perceive the enormous window of my studio as an aquarium in which, safe from the reality of the surrounding world, I could observe the lake.
The window slowly became the extension of the laptop screen. As if trapped in an imaginary computer, I observed how rain, wind and snow were free to quickly modify my view, dictating times utterly different from those of our society, which is increasingly conditioned by technology. Isolated from the city and other people, I decided to work with a digital alias.