BeFantastic Together Showcase
18th NOVEMBER 2021
BeFantastic Together is our flagship online fellowship program which is focussed on exploring the ongoing climate emergency to craft project prototypes using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies.The Fellowship included 60 Fellows and 8 Mentors from 7 countries, with divergent professional backgrounds within the fields of art, technology and environmentalism, who worked within self-initiated groups to create these 11 meaningful interactive or immersive project prototypes.
BeFantastic’s 2021 online fellowship was supported by the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (New Delhi, India) and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan (Bangalore, India), in partnership with Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore, ThoughtWorks Arts, (USA), Supernormal (Singapore), In The Wild (Singapore) and Dara.network (USA).
Room 1: Climate Action
Presenting Projects:
Stories from your Future
Stories from your Future An interactive text-based narrative set in 2050 Delhi addressing the crisis of water scarcity. The participant makes difficult choices as they navigate through the story; a provocation to reflect on the climate emergency and…
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The Lost Passage
The Lost Passage The Lost Passage is a digitally reconstructed environment of a swarm of artificial passenger pigeons. Here, they inhabit a destitute memory of a lost landscape while being confined within the four walls of this space.…
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i call you my kin
An attempt to redefine the way we perceive the parameters of objects through establishing correlations with characteristics of fungal networks — using the dynamic factors that define the mycelium universe. i call you my kin: Rebecca Goh (Singapore);…
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Climate Pieta
Can conversations mediated through AI and art change the way the religious and the non-religious engage with sorrows arising from the climate crisis? Can they evoke that much needed pieta to bring the climate transformation? Climate Pieta: Abhishek…
Explore ProjectRoom 2: Cross Cultural Collaboration
Presenting Projects:
with.each.drop
A synergistic duet, partnering dancer and code; movement to swell the voices of our climate crisis. Through p5.js, ml5 and PoseNet, with.each.drop facilitates a collaboration between performer, audiences and machine to understand our dance with nature and water.…
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Earthling Meditations
A meditative tool for the collective exploration of complex feelings around climate change, based on contemplative practices of nature, mindfulness, and community to activate personal change. Earthling Meditations: A. Morgan McKendry (USA), Edward Hutchins (Singapore), Li Actuallee (India)…
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Under the Shade of a Tree
Under the Shade of a Tree is a curatorial platform to host sound walks that focus on the history of the specific site, its biodiversity, and the challenges the site faces due to climate change and over-development. Under…
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Tree of Life: Interdependence and Fragility of Life
A playfully interactive, web based work to experience the symbiotic relationship we share with other life forms and the impact that climate change has on all life forms on earth. Tree of Life: Divya Ramachandran (India), Gautam Sonti…
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Presenting Projects:
Whale Tales: Adventures of Ocean Superheroes
An immersive audio visual narrative experience highlighting carbon sequestration of whales through empathetic game play, using real life whales as main characters. The online and physical artefacts are interconnected with audio visual pieces, choice based games and augmented…
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Supratrajectory
Supratrajectory is an immersive experience that speculates a future where human inaction against climate change renders Earth uninhabitable. The search for a new home compels scientists to turn to emotionally intelligent space probes to locate habitable exoplanets amongst…
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a silent scream
Interrogating humanity’s perception of climate change, animal cruelty and the impending extinction crisis, using film and facial expressions to guide its audience’s experience. Using AI, this exhibition attempts to inspect one’s own emotional reactions to the climate crisis.…
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The Vanishing World
Through a mixture of film and machine learning art experiences, the exhibition highlights the importance of raising awareness of climate change. Incorporating motion detection hardware as part of the interactive art expression for the physical art exhibition. The actions…
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