consciousness

Striving for progress The term tunnel vision sums up the essence of the piece – a commentary on humanity’s relentless pursuit of progress, often with an unwavering focus on a single goal. The music serves as a sonic exploration of the interplay between human emotions and the advancing field of artificial intelligence. Turing Test The […]

Lecture on Nothing “He talks for 40 minutes at a time and has nothing to say” is not a cynical comment under the video of some random Youtuber, but John Cage’s self-assessment in his “Lecture on Nothing”. Silence and Nothing Nothing could be more healing in our overstimulated world than nothing. Silence. But to be […]

Artificial intelligence as a link In recent years, the realization of traditional concert formats has not been easy. For eID, the circumstances became an opportunity and our ongoing search for new concert and performance formats became the focus of a broad public. We were looking for a discursive link between cross-platform online concerts. New forms […]

Transparency in a digital society Transparence is a piece about transparency in our digital society, a society where—with a view to readily available information—trust as a social practice becomes obsolete and gives way to control. Thus, the transparency society has a structural proximity to the surveillance society. Causal correlations and big data Understanding human needs […]

According to Thomas Metzinger, we cannot experience consciousness as such. At most, we can perceive the context of what we call consciousness: the color of something, sounds, smells or feelings. Our consciousness remains transparent. In general, we as humans perceive only a fraction of reality at all. From the possible frequency spectrum of sounds, we […]

Perception, consciousness and simulated reality TRANSFLEISCH takes up scientific findings and philosophical discourses on the subject of perception and consciousness and translates them into a contemporary aesthetic. The starting point is Thomas Metzinger’s theory, “which states that the content of consciousness is the content of a simulated reality in our brain and that the feeling […]