Dhvāni

The responsive and self-regulating exhibition Dhvāni from ongoing artistic research project Connecting Resonances stages an encounter between current AI technologies (e.g., neural networks and deep learning) and premodern tuning systems (e.g., windchimes, Gongs, Ghunghroos and temple bells from South Asia) for an augmented experience of time and technology. It is a participatory sculptural situation that is sensate as it can sense and react to the audience’s acoustic presence. The project nurtures relational and collective sonorities resonating with co-dependence, pluriversality, biological and more-than-human sensory networks, ancestral memory and intergenerational knowledge aided by an animist view of contemporary technologies. It examines and critiques the social, temporal and spatial limitations of current AI technologies and systems, datasets, and a biased machine memory by making an artistic research intervention into contemporary digital cultures of AI and machine learning. Connecting Resonances includes the advanced iterations from the project Dhvāni, developed from a prototype shown at Experimenta Arts and Science Biennale Grenoble in 2020 and premiered at Rewire Festival, Den Haag in April 2021.