Infrastructure of Feeling will be reading and curating Edvard Munch’s work at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
"Infrastructure of Feeling" is an audio/visual system developed by Paul Purgas & Louis Moreno that explores how our experience of art and understanding of culture is increasingly shaped by technologies like Machine Learning and AI. For the Frankfurt Book Fair, a specialised version of Infrastructure of Feeling has been commissioned to specifically engage with Edvard Munch’s written work.
The system uses a machine learning algorithm to analyse the emotions expressed in selections from the archive of Munch’s journals and notebooks. Having read Munch’s writing, the system analyses the text for emotional content and based on the outcome of the analysis will select a painting and piece of Norwegian music which best expresses the sentiment evoked. Visitors are able to follow this process across three screens which display the text the system is reading, together with the algorithmic analysis, and the machine's curatorial selections of image and song. The emotional state of the system is signalled through projected coloured light.
Infrastructure of Feeling will be reading and curating Edvard Munch’s work for the duration of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Experience the art installation Infrastructure of Feeling. Munch Edition from 16.-20. October 2019 at the Munch Museum stand at Arts +, Hall 4.1. stand N66 at the Frankfurt Book Fair!
Artist Biographies
Paul Purgas is a London based multidisciplinary artist currently in residence at Somerset House. Originally trained as an architect, he is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and has presented projects with Serpentine Gallery, South London Gallery and Bergen Assembly. He is one half of the sound/performance project Emptyset working between the fields of architecture and sonic art, with work commissioned by the Architecture Foundation, Tate Britain and David Roberts Art Foundation.
Louis Moreno is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures and Research Architecture at the Department of Visual Cultures and Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also the joint programme leader of the BA History of Art at Goldsmiths and member of the art collective ‘freethought’ who co-curated the 2016 Bergen Assembly in Norway.