Peter Michael Witt published at soundcloud the second prelude to the concept album “anti düsseldorf,” an experimental journey from classical sounds to granular destruction and synthesis — a conceptual project that explores the boundaries and the questionable nature of the decades-long hegemony of sequential music.
in ausschwitz birkenau i photographed the ruins of crematorium iii in the light of the setting sun. the scene reminded me strongly of caspar david friedrich and the fact that hitler and speer planned their buildings in such a way that they would still have made an imposing impression after a thousand years. admittedly, rather…
Peter Michael Witt published at soundcloud the first prelude to the concept album “anti düsseldorf,” an experimental journey from classical sounds to granular destruction and synthesis — a conceptual project that explores the boundaries and the questionable nature of the decades-long hegemony of sequential music.
after lengthy deliberations on how to contextualise the 6 million ai-generated portraits so that their relation to mass destruction becomes visible, i finally came up with a solution. with that, the conceptual preparations are complete, now it’s time to programme and find a place for the installation.
‘who owns the machine?’ is a conversation between peter michael witt and the ai system claude (anthropic) about a gap in the current discourse: the public debate on artificial intelligence revolves almost exclusively around threat scenarios – mass unemployment, concentration of power, the erosion of democracy – without ever asking an obvious question: if the…
with my current media art project #6million, i would like to try to visualise the incomprehensibility of the holocaust and thereby inherently question the cognitive consequences of media technology mediation for our memory work. the idea at the moment is a media installation with 6 million different, photo-realistic, digital-virtual portraits, created by an ai, although…
i kept asking myself how one could imagine the unimaginable amount of 6 million people killed. but you can visualise it: if you line up 6 million people, you get a human chain of incredible 3,500 kilometres. this corresponds to the distance bordeaux – moscow. my new work tries to show the systematic killing of…