Simone C Niquille is part of the 2022 Digital Art Residency programme in collaboration with Pro Helvetia. During the residency, Simone is working on the computer animated TV show duckrabbit.tv, which will be presented in the 2023 festival edition.
Computation is the New Optics - a catchphrase coined by the computational photography research community to signify an ongoing shift in vision technology takes centre stage in Simone C Niquille’s duckrabbit.tv. In this computer animated TV show, Niquille interrogates the technical and socio-political implications of these “New Optics''. The show's main character - duckrabbit - is modelled after an illustration by Joseph Jastrow from 1892, brought to fame by its use in philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
Revived for the modern age of computational vision, the curious and confused queer character narrates the show to question the network of actors participating in the New Optics, and the trials and tribulations of CGI production.
jury
Lukáš Likavčan, Svitlana Matviyenko, Tobias Brenk, and Nora O Murchú.
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The Digital Art Residency is a cooperation between transmediale and Pro Helvetia. transmediale has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004. with additional funding by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Department Culture.
