- Date
- 15 SEPTEMBER 2022
- Author
- GLORIA MARIA CAPPELLETTI
- Image by
- STINE DEJA
- Categories
- Aesthetics
Bots and birds in conversation with Stine Deja
Artists that dissolved boundaries between art, science, and philosophy expand our understanding and our perspective on the world, while rejecting conventional ideas about the human form. Working with not just visuals, but AI and mechanical elements, Danish born, London based artist Stine Deja is not just representing scientific advances in her art, she is pursuing new forms of exploration. Stine is pushing the limits of physical bodies and digital spaces, using immersive installations, 3D animation and sculpture in an attempt to offer viewers an insight into the posthuman world, in which boundaries between external and internal, technology and the self, would dissolve. Stine deals with the potential manipulation of a new posthuman form, a new mutation in the DNA of humanity.
We talked at length with Stine Deja about these heady subjects as well as her production process, her vision on late-capitalist narratives, and her research into immortality and life extending treatments. Watch the full interview to explore her thought-provoking reflections on the relationship between technology and the mind.
"When we're in the womb, we are surrounded by amniotic fluid. So I wanted to create a scenario where you kind of walk into a kind of factory setting and this cryopreservation story has been a success. It has actually happened and they are now coming back to life. And like birds would sing at the start of a new day, these entities are singing together because their new day has started or their life has started."
"Divine Desires is a collaboration with another Danish artist called Marie Munk and we had the opportunity to exhibit our work in one of the most crowded squares in Copenhagen. It is the central square in Copenhagen where there's lots and lots of people walking by all the time and we wanted to create some work that was really like you could not see it when you walk by. So we were kind of thinking about what interested us at that time and then we decided we wanted to create this humongous person that was lying in the space and was just like sleeplessly going through some kind of screen. So the windows in the building were kind of becoming screens for us and the content of the screen is the people that walks by."
"We had two years of lockdown with screens and displays all the time, so it's time now to go offline and create something real."
"I read this really interesting story recently about this Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, I think he was called. And he was fired for saying that one of the AI is sentient and that it has a soul. Of course, Google didn't agree with this and they fired him for violating their kind of what's it called, the confidentiality policy. But I don't know. This is a really interesting topic. I honestly don't know if they can be programmed. I think that was the one of the most shared articles that I've seen."
