ANIMA™

Centre Pompidou / IRCAM / Manifeste 2022

Anima™ by Alexander Schubert, is the name of an institution where visitors come into contact with their past and probable future. The interpreters, “patients” of this institute, obey a scenario delivered in real time. Everything has been developed from the real data of the performers from the Decoder Ensemble, in a continuous process of transformation and alienation. The characteristic features of the emotion, the genre, the affects will be varied and will generate artificial avatars. Through AI neural networks, classes and groups of individuals with the same properties are extracted to produce new entries: atypical, unexpected, fascinating results.

Anima™ is not just another survivalist fiction: it is about thinking of technology as the ultimate tool for introspection, rich with a thousand possibilities and a thousand dangers.