Humanness: inner studies in a collective cloud at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg
Humanness: inner studies in a collective cloud is the latest work in the series Collected Memory and part of the exhibition Work It Out! at Kunsten in Aalborg. Accessable from 24th of Septemper 2021 to 16th of January 2022Humanness: inner studies in a collective cloud is an interactive artwork in continuation of the Collected Memory series. This artwork is centered on questions of identity, the workplace and our role in the digital era. The work is part of the exhibition Work It Out! at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg.
Work it out! Is the winner of the prestigious Bikubens Vision Award 2018. The exhibition is about the future of modern work-life, and how art can contribute to new and improved ways of thinking and working.
A SPACE FOR DECELERATION
Humanness: Inner Studies in a Collective Cloud speaks to the highly relevant term The Extreme Self, which describes the time we're in, where acceleration accelerates (or, pro acceleration). This new cultural territory, which includes both data monitoring and collection, has made concepts such as Big Data, Cloud computing and doxingpart of our common language. And the large amounts of data that are collected has made our attention a commodity in itself. In this context, Mille Kalsmose with her work Humanness: Inner Studies in a Collective Cloudoffers a space and a method for deceleration, i.e. the opposite of proacceleration, which can be achieved through a strengthening of our relationship to each other and an awareness of the structures, that results in the high speed of the times,which can be difficult to keep up with.
In the exhibition Work it Out!art is used as a reflection of our working life, but art also has a unique potential in terms of influencing and changing existing structures in both our private and working life. And perhaps art and companies can even work together to form new communities and foster creativity, thereby contributing to well-being and a more stellar organization.
HUMANS ARE ALGORITHMS, AND ALGORITHMS CAN BE REWRITTEN
"I believe that we, as humans, are made of a particular set of data, consisting of particles, that are constantly in flux. If this is correct, then we are living algorithms, and algorithms can be rewritten. Because I wasn’t brought into this world with the algorithm of my dreams, I try to find the way to optimize, and rewrite, myself, so I can become a programme that indpires other programmes to find their dream algorithm." - Mille Kalsmose
Set on a dramatic and visually striking stage, Humanness: Inner Studies in a Collective Cloud explores through archives, physically and digitally, how we live in a dual existence of both of these worlds. The participants are the driving force in creating meaning and matter in the artwork, where they write their intentions on one of the thousands of individually folded papers in the archive, or participate from anywhere in the world, online through a link. The statements will flow through the screens put up at the site, and permanently stored in the digital archive of collectedmemory.world, a global platform of individual voices.
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