Kristin Jakubek: Networked Beings – Parameters and Parallels, 2023
Type: Master’s Project Degree Programme: Media Art and Design Professorship: Media Environments Advisor: Prof. Ursula Damm, Mattis Kuhn

“Networked Beings – Parameters and Parallels” is an immersive video installation with 360-degree spatial sound. In the video work, the POV of ten different animals is transmitted as a kind of “speculative video data-set” to an AI for image recognition. The work is a audio-visual dialog between the unfamiliar portraits of nature, as habitats shot from the animals’ point of view, and insights into the purely mathematical data-processing of an AI neural network. Two non-human forms of being are juxtaposed in their processing of the world. This raises important, contemporary questions in the field of tension in the human-mediated relation between nature and technology. The visual data-set of animal perceptions recalls the richness and expansiveness of the natural world and quietly asks what information is being lost in the unstoppable processes of digitalization.

Media Art and Design
Media Environments
Prof. Ursula Damm
Mattis Kuhn
Kristin Jakubek