SUMMARY:

‘Slowly Fading into Data’ is a speculative audiovisual project expressed through multiple artistic formats: a retro-game & arcade installation, a conceptual music album, a live audiovisual performance, and a film. These audiovisual experiences are the result of Albert.DATA’s artistic research on disembodiment, extended cognition, hybrid beings and synthetic identities. An avant-garde, ambient and contemplative story of a human slowly mutating into data: a transformative journey about non-human forms, the limits and extensions of experience, existence and identity. The creation of new audiovisual instruments to interpret the final human reverberations. A step forward towards the disintegration of the self. THE PROJECT: The Retro-Game & Arcade installation is based on a narrative-driven action-adventure experience focused on interactive storytelling and action. It is designed to be played more than once to uncover all its hidden secrets, options, Easter eggs and alternative endings. An intense cinematic audiovisual experience that pushes your 8-bit perception and tests your exploration and philosophical skills. The aim of the project is to challenge standard audiovisual production methods by combining “low-tech” (8-bit retro console) with “high-tech” (artificial intelligence and procedural sound design) through game engine technologies. Specifically, the experience features artistic 8-bit game assets designed and produced using artificial intelligence techniques (machine learning applied to visual arts); and also includes 8-bit procedural music and sound design that experiments with and exploits the sound hardware of this iconic family of consoles. The Music Album is a conceptual sound project that dives into the past to look towards the future. Using research on 8-bit music and neural audio synthesis, Albert.DATA proposes an avant-garde, ominous ambient experience that feels completely out of time. The creation of new digital instruments to interpret the last human reverberations. A memory journey based on contemplation and ecstasy. A step forward towards the disintegration of the self. The Live A/V Performance (45 min.) is an interactive and experimental audiovisual narrative show that implements 8-bit sound technologies with real-time neural audio synthesis. The live performance invites us into an ambient, ethereal, abstract and contemplative story of a human slowly mutating into data: a transformative journey about the meaning of transfiguration into a non-human form, the limits and extensions of experience, existence and identity. The Film (45 min.) is an experimental cinematography project aiming to merge all other expressions of the ‘Slowly Fading into Data’ project into a single audiovisual experience. It consists of 6 different short pieces combining scenes from the live audiovisual performance and fictional material. The goal is to challenge canonical audiovisual production methods by combining retro formats (8 mm film) with cutting-edge cinematic technology (virtual production and artificial intelligence). PROJECT WEBSITE www.albert-data.com