Plastic Biosphere
Kıvanç Tatar, 2020premiered at Ars Electronica 2020



A silhouette of the audience’s body pixelates an anthropocene landscape that is stylized by artificial intelligence using images of plastic.
Plastic Biosphere is an interactive artwork that touches on the imperative coexistence of humankind and plastics. The artwork uses artificial intelligence architectures to generate interactive music and moving images that copy the style of images with plastics, onto the sceneries of post-anthropocene while asking,
How much plastic have we left?
Tech Details:
- The visuals in this work uses two AI systems for frame-by-frame consistent style transformation.
- Music in this work is generated in realtime by using an AI system called MASOM.
Plastic Biosphere is an interactive artwork that touches on the imperative coexistence of humankind and plastics. The artwork uses artificial intelligence architectures to generate interactive music and moving images that copy the style of images with plastics, onto the sceneries of post-anthropocene while asking,
How much plastic have we left?
Tech Details:
- The visuals in this work uses two AI systems for frame-by-frame consistent style transformation.
- Music in this work is generated in realtime by using an AI system called MASOM.
Teaser
@UNATC Garden Bucharest | as a part of ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2020
UNATC Garden presents the results of the online collaboration between five international artists, virtually gathered in CINETic Residencies, active in interactive art and CINETic Centre researchers and artists.
UNATC Garden Bucharest Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_H8vS0mUUeKsLv7Tkw4AbA
Ars Electronica page: https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/cinetic-residencies-talk/
UNATC page: https://cinetic.arts.ro/plastic-biosphere/
Credits
Kıvanç Tatar, Ph.D.
Artistic Director, Creative AI developer
Artistic Director, Creative AI developer
Assoc. Prof. Alexandru Berceanu
CINETic Director
CINETic Director
Iuliana Gherghescu
Set Design
Set Design
Grigore Burloiu
Technical Director
Technical Director
Andrei Gindac
Admin
Admin
Marius Hodea
3D Modelling
3D Modelling