PAST IN PROGRESS, 2022 CGI animation, AI generated film

The work refers to Donna Haraway‘s invitation to think further about her narrative „Camille‘s Stories“: several generations of a human female were given through genetic modification an ability of the endangered fire salamander. Through the so-called dormancy she can store fertilized eggs until she decides to carry them to better conditions. In addition, the work questions the community of the fire salamander. The artist herself has seen the now partly extinct animal the last time in her childhood in Thuringia. She explores the question, who was able to protect it there years ago? Are there disruption narratives that have made the community invisible? Who were they and what can we learn from them today, using new technologies?

The work is presented by medienkunstverein (media art association) as part of the exhibition:

TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES. Visions of the Postdigital

The presented works, blur and transcend the boundaries between human and machine, past and future, material and immaterial. They envision a time when technologies not only serve as tools but also become mediums of freedom, opening up possibilities for shaping our reality.