Hervisions is super excited to invite Keiken for a performative lecture that seeks to unfold our experience of the future of data, the future of the physical/virtual world and a critical analysis on popular solutions like empathy and altruism. This is the second event as part of Zaiba Jabbar’s curator in residence at LUX residency, exploring data inspired art and moving image.
On the day at LUX, Keiken will present their research accompanied by a live streamed performance from AGF HYDRA: Artist, Fashion Activist and Designer who’s body of work investigates the value of biotechnologically advanced utopias. This will be an extension from collaborative work between AGF HYDRA and Keiken made for the current group exhibition ‘CHIMERA’, at STUDIO 35, Bucharest. During the Performative Lecture they will also be hosting a live streamed conversation with Natasha Vita-More, futurist/transhumanist, scientist and designer of the ‘Substrate Autonomous Person’ in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Keiken are a collective and organisation comprised of artists and musicians who merge the latest technologies such as VR with music and interactive contemporary art.
I love Kim not because I know her but because I love her data. I’m not so sure about Kanye’s data though. Anyway, let’s not judge, we all have data, a past that Facebook owns. As the futurists fly across the world by day and night, they go to church on Sundays down Silicone Valley. The Earth has a flu from the virus called humans and the humans just say “Oh, what a lovely sunny day’”. Then we all talk deep as our ego expands as we think we have an answer “WHAT WILL MAKE THE WORLD BETTER IS IF WE HAD MORE EMPATHY”. Then we forget what we thought and just chat crapitalism. By the way, now I am a platform diverse body, I am available in all the different worlds, the material world, the virtual world and the app store. I’m no longer just physical, baby!
“Honey, I’m Data!” is the second event in a series of workshops, talks and digital encounters, commissioned by Hervisions at LUX. The title “Honey, I’m Data!” derives from a speculative interactive RPG installation conceptualised by Keiken in 2016, in which players enter into a shifted reality where their Quantified Self (personal biometric data) alters a reactive environment.