1-11 August,2024
Polylithic is an interdisciplinary AI-music agent sculpture that explores the profound human drive for tool-making and its implications for world-building. This artistic-research project merges music, artificial intelligence, and sculpture, probing our relationship with technology and delving into how early forms of knowledge production, through language and symbols, have shaped humanity. By creating encoded poetry with custom AI scripts, which are then transformed into glyphs and laser-etched onto lithic structures, Polylithic bridges ancient and contemporary practices of encoding and decoding information. The use of stone and 3D printing as materials underscores the project’s emphasis on permanence and geological timescales, surpassing human temporal limits.
Polylithic explores language and symbol creation as early tools for transmitting knowledge. It examines tool creation, musical instruments, and the impact of symbols. Visitors interact with AI agents, providing inputs that the agents incorporate into an evolving cultural history, highlighting cooperation in tool-making and AI’s potential as creators. The piece addresses themes of cooperation versus competition and abundance versus precarity, offering a profound reflection on the intersection of art, science, and technology. By merging ancient practices with digital technology, it emphasizes the continuity of knowledge and symbolic communication, offering insights into the human-tool relationship.
Moisés Horta Valenzuela (b. 1988, He/Him) is an artist, A.I. technologist and musician from Tijuana, México, specializes in computer music and the historical and political dimensions of emerging generative algorithmic technologies. His artistic practice seeks to challenge established dichotomies through radical juxtapositions, blending concepts such as utopia and dystopia, and folk traditions with capitalist modernity.
As Hexorcismos, he forges an uncanny link between ancient and contemporary sound technologies so as to address the politics of colonization, occupation and contemporary alchemy. Prehispanic sound artifacts from ancient México, Deep Neural Networks, wearable brain-computer interfaces and hand-crafted electronic instruments are critically merged together to situate the listener in a teknoXamanistic ritual of rhythmical and mnemonic noise.
platform BUNKER 