Syndicate: ARTLAB-Prospect3 "Ultima Ratio"

[yshikata@crpg.canon.co.jp (Yukiko Shikata)]

dear all,

here is the information of our coming exhibition, which
i am curating in the frame of Canon ARTLAB.

yukiko shikata

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ARTLAB-Prospect 3 Exhibition
"Ultima Ratio" - Software and Interactive Installation
 (artist: Daniela Alina Plewe)
May 27 (thu)-June 6 (sun) at Spiral Garden, Tokyo

organized by: Canon ARTLAB
co-operation with: Goethe Institut Tokyo, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center

In "Ultima Ratio," visitors can experience the conflicts of heroes/
heroines in various scenarios in literature, such as Shakespeare's
"Hamlet", movie "Casablanca," "Robocop" and Greek myth "Medea"
etc. remodeled by decision-support-formalism of AI.

The tangled backgrounds and psychological dilemmas in narratives
are visualized and networked in 3-D diagrams, to form visual
databases. Visitors can experience the depths of consciousness
in accordance with changing voices and colors. This work is in the
limelight, not only in the fields of media and information technology,
but also as an original idea to link literatures with multimedia.

The work, first shown at ARS ELECTRONICA 98 in Linz last year, is the
first exhibition of full-fledged installation in the world.


<on Ultima Ratio by Daniela Alina Plewe>

In this Virtual Reality Ambient human paradoxes and dilemmas are
represented as logical strucutres. A decision support system from
AI research reasons then on such issues as: should Hamlet kill
Claudius.., should Ilsa leave Casablanca with Rick..., should one live
for ideals even if risking one's life..., etc.? Thereby exceptions to
rules allow to differentiate the formalization. The system generated
inner monologues of the characters and visualizes them in realtime
as 3-D diagrams. The ambivalence of choices may become captured
as images about mental spaces. The visual language (here of protoype
1) allows also to draw images beyond the logical functionality:
features like 'reasoning running wild' courage "live wrong, but win"
and 'plans of a life' can be expressed within thesemantics of "Ultima
Ratio."


<Daniela Alina Plewe>

lives in Berlin
studies in Philosophy, Literature and Anthropology

1988-89   Video at University of Paris VIII
1991-95   member of the AI-group "Logic, Theories of Knowledge and
                 Information" at Freie Universitaet Berlin
1995        project-artist at ZKM, Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe
1995        grant of French Embassy, Bonn
1998        Ars Electronica
1998        grant of Senate of Berlin
1998        honorary mention in the genre of Interacitve Art at Comtecart,
Dresden


*further information at http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/
   or contact Yukiko Shikata at yshikata@crpg.canon.co.jp




Yukiko Shikata, Canon ARTLAB
DK Bldg.5F, 7-18-23, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 Japan
Tel:+81-3-5410-3611 Fax:3615 http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/
ARTLAB-Prospect3"Ultima Ratio"(Daniela Alina Plewe) May 27-June6



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