Interactive 3D CGI Installation

E.I The Blob is part of the research project, Non-knowledge, Laughter & The Moving Image. The research project has been exploring the capacity of the Moving Image and the Laughing Body for new and alternative modes of thinking, acting and being, and their potential to overturn our habitual course and change the order of things. It has been organised around four interests: Visuality, Affect, Embodiment and Polyphonic Montage. By shifting the attention away from images as forms of representations, to images as matter and waves of psychic intensities and fields of individuation, the project has explored communication not as a correct exchange of information, but rather as a clash and a coming together of forces. Through montage it has let the Moving Image itself become a theorizing subject, and to have it form the foundation for a series of screenings, events and discussions that, together with artists, researchers, theorists, students and audience, have been exploring the limits of knowing, through the possibilities of non-knowledge. Like the sudden invasion of laughter that for a moment sets us off course, it has been exploring ways in which we, organisms, bodies, technologies and environments communicate beyond instrumental language, subjectivity and reason, to experience what the moving image and our bodies can do and how they can teach us about the limits of our thinking.

E.I The Blob is a noise making interactive “image-organism” sensitive to sound and touch, created to explore new ways of thinking, being, acting with the Moving Image. With it we want to open up for human to non-human social relations, where situated forms of response-ability exisits, and where the digital and the organic systems are intertwined in a continual state of affecting and changing each other.

E.I the Blob plays a central role in the artistic research project “Non-knowledge, Laughter and the Moving Image” where it allows us to rethink our relation to the moving image and to see it as an intra-active* vibrant body. With E.I the Blob we want to shift our attention away from the moving image as form of representation, to it as a material of psychic intensities and fields of individuation. Thus, we neither see the moving image as a tool or a property that we as subjects can control and own, nor do we look at it as a separate entity with closed borders that we are studying from outside. Instead we are interested in a research entangled with it where we could learn from and with it, and from where new temporary borders and becomings could emerge. The name E.I could stand for Earthificial Intelligence, or simply a mispronunciation or confusion of the acronyms A.I. or E.T.

Funded by the Swedish Research Council (2017-03110) and hosted by Kungl. Konsth.gskolan/Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.