Florentin Aisslinger

Florentin Aisslinger (*Berlin) is an artist, designer, and researcher. Her work focuses on the trajectory of collective stories, emerging technologies, and earthbound questions. She translates her subjects across a variety of simulated scenarios and visual or written manifestations.

Her work has been showcased at the Biennale Saint-Etienne; London Design Week; Center of Investigative Journalism London; Transmediale Vorspiel in Berlin; Spazio Maiocchi in Milan among others.

Selected WorkIndex

Project: Film, sound piece

Project: Film, Installation

Collaboration: Meghan Rolvien

Project: Film, Bricks

“AIR Live” is an AI-generated news forecast showcasing a simulated world in 2050. By using AI as a tool to synthesise hyper-realistic but fictive scenarios both on a narrative and image level, the work explores the manipulatory and political dimensions of AI within a news forecast format.

The outcome is a “present future” set in 2050, projected out of historic data and shown through an assemblage of narratives, images, and weather diagrams that are presented to us by a generated news avatar.

“AIR Live” is a form of cultural and political manipulation that produces an embodied experience of simulation using open-source AI tools. A dimension of a “synthetic universality” that deliberately, or not, takes leave of ground truth.

In 1966, Stewart Brand described an Outlaw Area as “a geographical place where anything goes”.

Earth and humanity will increasingly face destruction in the next few decades. Destruction that is caused by both the withdrawal and arrival of certain environmental conditions. During times of collapse, it is worth questioning the legitimacy of legal clauses tailored to what we understand as stable circumstances.

In search of (past and present) states of exception, Outlaw Zones is a series of cautionary tales that discusses legal gaps and open ends within territorial negotiations that have taken place in human history. The series explores the role of legislation in the management and framing of land and resources during times of collapse.

Without specifically advocating for the transferability of individual observations, Outlaw Zones suggests that in states of exception, there lies a potential for radical territorial reimagining.

By depositing your meticulously sorted plastic waste into the publicly accessible Living-with-Matter-Converter-1, a device employing injection molding instantly transforms your personal waste into a Living-with-Matter-Brick-1. This resulting brick embodies both the act of caring (Sorge) and the act of providing (Besorgen), demonstrating a commitment to circular material management, intergenerational stewardship, and the inherent significance of all matter. Ultimately, we come to perceive ubiquitous plastic waste not only as a perpetually available resource and freely accessible material, but also as a collaborative partner in constructing environments beyond the human realm.

Upcoming

Outlaw Zones –
Bleached to White

Featured by ROA at
Spazio Maiocchi
for Salone del Mobile
15.4 – 21.4.2024

In 1966, Stewart Brand described an Outlaw Area as “a geographical place where anything goes”.

Earth and humanity will increasingly face destruction in the next few decades. Destruction that is caused by both the withdrawal and arrival of certain environmental conditions. During times of collapse, it is worth questioning the legitimacy of legal clauses tailored to what we understand as stable circumstances.

In search of (past and present) states of exception, Outlaw Zones is a series of cautionary tales that discusses legal gaps and open ends within territorial negotiations that have taken place in human history. The series explores the role of legislation in the management and framing of land and resources during times of collapse.

Without specifically advocating for the transferability of individual observations, Outlaw Zones suggests that in states of exception, there lies a potential for radical territorial reimagining.

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