XENOSPACE

CROSSLUCID  
Dwellers Between the Waters, 2023  
Virtual installation: HD video with audio, HD video directional audio, 3D sculptures  
Video narration and soundscape: Sayaka Botanic  
Text / poetry: Oxi Png  
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across the star-flooded fields  
the sound is shining clear  
composed of glimmering lights  
its frothing the viscous air  
inhaling the copper promise  
in the frayed tint  
speckled with olfactory traps  
slithering away  
in the lustrous gardens  
through cushions of time  
dictating the direction of winds 
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                            crosslucid (2023)

Dwellers Between the Waters (2023) is conjured by the interdisciplinary artist collective CROSSLUCID as a series of hybrid rituals that mediate the space in between physical presence, trauma, memory, healing and virtuality. Polyphonic in its artificially-intelligent framework, Dwellers Between the Waters could be experienced as a happening that is chanted by various elemental entities such as waters, winds, earth, air, algorithm... as well as poetry, history, magic, human and more-than-human creatures... This happening of digital rituals questions about the singularity of humanist perception on reality. Co-performing with artificial intelligence, it attempts to create alternative epistemologies and outlooks on the (so-called) reality through rendering multi-focal narratives and embedding the psycho-magical practice in forms of living sigils.

Combing artificial intelligence with the practice of magic and alchemy, Dwellers Between the Waters seeks possible solutions in response to the traumas of the contemporary anthropos, and examines how artificial intelligence, in terms of artistic practice, remains integral to our contemporary condition, that is, the ever-evolving climate crisis and the sixth extinction of species coupled with wars, inflation, capitalist exploitations...By evoking, cultivating and connecting various forms of consciousness in the virtual realms, Dwellers Between the Waters invites the dwellers who inhabit in and among realities to share their stories and experiences, which then feed back to the (so-called) reality as evolving strings materialising across both physical and virtual domains to (hopefully) bring novel perspectives for further changes. - Oxi Png  
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EPOCH presents, XENOSPACE, a ground-breaking and experimental virtual exhibition that features seven artists exploring the collaborative boundaries between AI and machine learning within their creative processes.

The title XENOSPACE alludes to an unusual or unfamiliar environment. EPOCH has processed 360 equirectangular panoramas through Stable Diffusion, generating the subsequent AI-assisted environments that serve as the backdrop for the artworks.

XENOSPACE responds to a significant moment in the field, as it reflects on the growing relationship between humans and machines and the impact of AI on creative expression. The exhibition serves as a benchmark, showcasing the expansive collaborative potential of AI and machine learning in contemporary art practices and exhibition building.  chatGPT