Urbonas Studio
Founded by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Urbonas Studio is an interdisciplinary research practice that facilitates exchange amongst diverse nodes of knowledge production and artistic practice in pursuit of projects that transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries. In collaboration with experts from different cultural and professional fields Urbonas Studio develops practice-based research models merging a variety of materials and techniques from new media, urbanism, social science, pedagogy and ecology.
Swamp Intelligence
Installation; constructed wall, landscape modelling, generative AI, 2019
Inside of a wall is nested an ecosystem, where natural forms organically merge with digital life forms. Swamp Intelligence is based on a NoPlace Neural Network (NNN), a variant of a conditional AI (artificial intelligence), used to unveil neural network abilities to generate novel visual imagery from two datasets of images: one of lifeforms from swamp ecosystems, and one of architectural forms. The system is based on an AI algorithm that uses white noise to generate hybrids of natural, architectural and technological imagery, uncanny for human perception, reflecting the uncanny aura of swamps as places of transformation in our ecological imaginary.
Swamp Intelligence
Installation; constructed wall, landscape modelling, generative AI, 2019
Inside of a wall is nested an ecosystem, where natural forms organically merge with digital life forms. Swamp Intelligence is based on a NoPlace Neural Network (NNN), a variant of a conditional AI (artificial intelligence), used to unveil neural network abilities to generate novel visual imagery from two datasets of images: one of lifeforms from swamp ecosystems, and one of architectural forms. The system is based on an AI algorithm that uses white noise to generate hybrids of natural, architectural and technological imagery, uncanny for human perception, reflecting the uncanny aura of swamps as places of transformation in our ecological imaginary.
