Being, written in stone

is an installation that consists of 8 ceramic sound sculptures and a second part of an audiovisual projection and a marble brain sculpture. The project is exploring the relations between human-stones-machine through memory. The project aims to question our position in the world as entities, human and non-human, and to suggest and imagine ways to create intertwined worlds. What memory can be, from the perspective of a stone? How can we reflect on each other's memories, human and nonhuman? 

We exist within this world with others, humans and nonhumans. Nevertheless, our existence is predominant in relation to objects, we act on them constantly rather than them acting on us. They behave based on our actions. This is putting us in the center of things and everything exists through our scope. Taking this view on this, creates boundaries between us, hierarchies in existence that create distinctions. Thus, the question is how can we instead create relations with them, in a way that we equally existing with, dying with, thinking with? Shifting the focus of attention from humans and coexisting in a symbiotic relation.

The project uses new means of technology, more specifically AI, for the audio processing. Voices are transformed to field recordings and reverse, generating a new intertwined language. AI gives us the opportunity to imagine beyond human scope, and to perceive features, patterns, and correlations through vast spaces of data beyond human reach. Thus, for our project, it is a fundamental tool for exploring materiality, texture, and memory in humans, nonhumans, and machines.