Artist Dialogues III: Future Broadcasts
With: American Artist, Paloma and Leslie of Interspecifics, Lawrence Lek, and Giacomo Castagnola

What will we be watching in the future? What speculative future broadcasts might captivate our attention? Lek’s new film, Empty Rider, has us looking at future watching, in an AI judge’s courtroom in which a self-driving car is on trial. Artist’s Yannis Window suggests a television whose access must be sold in the near future, as in Butler’s Parable of the Sower; we watch public access documentaries and characters in Butler’s novel as the subject of mock newscasts. Interspecifics’ Codex Virtualis_EMERGENCE 0.1 suggests another kind of future broadcast, or feed, a host of biological, speculative lifeforms, generating continually, unnamed and in a mesmerizing flow. Castagnola, an architect, created the scenography of BIM’24, including a central spine running from base to top floor that ‘broadcasts’ material – historical documents and ephemera and archives – which are gifts for the future, speak to the ethos of the artists, and celebrate 50 years of the Centre d’Art Contemporain.

Before and after the conversation, visitors are warmly invited to experience American Artist’s Yannis Window, Interspecifics’ Codex Virtualis_EMERGENCE, Lek’s Empty Rider, and Castagnola’s GIFT and Mycelium Resting Area when one enters the Biennale.