Johanna Bruckner and Carolyn Kirschner: S+T+ARTS Echo projects at theGATE Festival in Stuttgart

The artistic works of Carolyn Kirschner and Johanna Bruckner, which were created as part of the S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o Residency at the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, were presented for the first time at theGATE Festivalof the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS).

The short film "There Is No Such Thing as a Fish" by Carolyn Kirschner follows the zebrafish through laboratories, data landscapes and evolutionary biology narratives and traces the structures of life. Kirschner's work blurs the boundaries between human and non-human bodies and opens up perspectives on science, perception and existence.

The video work "The Perfect Perfect Dirty" by Johanna Bruckner creates speculative body and future images in which AI does not appear as a neutral system, but as an affective, "contaminated" technology. The focus is on the visualization of algorithmic decisions under conditions of uncertainty, incomplete data and unstable causalities as well as their inscription in social, political and physical realities.