Max Cooper - Morphosis (Official Video by Memo Akten)

** This meditative video starts with silence and a black screen! ** ► Subscribe: ► Sign up & join Discord: ⬛Stream/download ’Yearning for the Infinite’: Max Cooper: This chapter was created by Memo Akten, using artificial neural networks to create morphing images of scale. The system explores how natural structures from the most tiny to the most huge, share aesthetic properties, as recognised by the trained network, and recreated in continuous flowing sequence via these connections. It’s a study of the seemingly infinite nature of space and natural physical structure, which can loop back on itself to give endless visual exploration and variation. The music needed to be equally organic and free flowing, the result of an improvisation session where I tried to keep the parameters constantly and slowly changing to mirror the ebb and flow and morphing style of Memo’s work. The full album project is explained at - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Memo Akten: This chapter is a continuation of, and part of my “Deep Meditations“ series. This series exists in various forms, and is primarily a large-scale video and sound installation; a multi-channel, abstract film; a monument that celebrates life, nature, the universe and our subjective experience of it. The work invites us on a spiritual journey through slow, meditative, continuously evolving images and sounds, told through the imagination of a deep artificial neural network. We are invited to acknowledge and appreciate the role we play as humans as part of a complex ecosystem heavily dependent on the balanced co-existence of many components. The work embraces and celebrates the interconnectedness of all human, non-human, living and non living things across infinitely many scales of time and space – from microbes to galaxies. “We are all connected. To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” – Carl Sagan How can we think in times of urgencies without the self-indulgent and self-fulfilling myths of apocalypse, when every fiber of our being is interlaced, even complicit, in the webs of processes that must somehow be engaged and repatterned? Recursively, whether we asked for it or not, the pattern is in our hands. It matters what ideas we use to think other ideas with. It matters what matters we use to think other matters with. It matters what knots knot knots. It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what worlds world worlds.“ – Donna Haraway - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stream/download: Music: Max Cooper Sign up for exclusive music & updates: #join Follow on Instagram: Follow on Facebook: Director: Memo Akten
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