Red Lake,Lito Kattou

2018, Jun-

Red Lake

№14/37

№ 1/1

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Red Lake 2017, Real time video projection, HD sound, videostill

Red Lake, 2017

HD real time video projection, HD sound, stills from video

*realised in collaboration with Google Cultural Institue in Paris during the 89plus Google Residency 2017

Developed over the course of the artist’s residency at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris, San, is a basic AI (artificial intelligence) created to embody an ecological subjectivity alien to human thoughts. The structuring data is collected from Red Lake, a mine site located near Nicosia, Cyprus, one of the fastest climatic changing regions of the South East Mediterranean zone. The lake is a remnant of the ancient copper mine of Kokkinopezoula in Mitsero, active from the Chalcolithic period until the 1960s. The high acidic environment of the lake does not allow any biological living organism to develop, leaving the surrounding area impervious.

San, an ungendered AI hybridly conceived with human, divine, and animal traits lives in the Red Lake - recreated by Kattou as a real-time digital environment. Their body and actions smartly respond to specific climatic variations such as temperature, humidity, visibility, wind speed and weather. San’s brain is built to guard and react to the Red Lake, they are imagined as a mythological figure protecting their unique surroundings.