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Haseeb Ahmed (b. 1985) is an American artist who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He produces objects, installations, and films. His work is often collaborative and draws from the hard sciences, blending art and aeronautics, myth and technology, to create new narratives. Over the last 10 years, Ahmed has structured his research-based artistic practice around the fluid dynamics of wind and water. His focus is on what we can learn about our changing climates from the movements of the wind and the waters, by focussing on what they carry, both physically and in terms of cultural associations throughout history. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp, BE) and has been exhibited internationally at the Göteborg Biennial (Göteborg, SE), Museum Bärengasse, (Zurich, CH), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, USA), De Appel (Amsterdam, NL), and the Frestas Triennial (Frestas, BR), amongst others.

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The wind inaugurates chaos or change. The Library of the Winds features an air-powered lottery machine which selects one of the World’s great winds. Aeoliphones have been used in theater and opera since the 16th century to create the sound of wind. The automated aeoliphones here play back the selected winning wind. Just as the spinning of the Earth sets its winds in motion so too does The Library of the Winds revolve, resembling a special form of carousel. The wind speaks to many of our senses, In The Library of the Winds there is no wind, but the effect that it has on our senses is replicated, especially the sense of sound, sight, and orientation.

The Library of the Winds

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Haseeb Ahmed – The Library of the Winds

Roel Heremans is a transdisciplinary artist working with ethical videogames, composed introspection &amp; neurofeedback.
In most of his works he composes fragments of audio that trigger the imagination of visitors in order to create immersive group experiences. As a result, the visitors simultaneously become actors, witnesses, performers and reenactors of mental and physical processes of thought and movement, where collective performances encounter individual reactions and vice versa.
By activating people in this way, Heremans generates a simulation of the contemporary world, one in which every individual is part of their own self-mirroring bubble, one in which the visitor, with their experience, remains the artist’s only metaphorical canvas. His varied practice, all deriving from these immersive group experiences, also includes video and works on paper.

Roel Heremans

Neuro-wearables and BCIs (Brain-Computer-Interfaces) are already here, and soon they will be everywhere. 
As innovation is moving faster than the social and ethical frameworks around it, researchers at Columbia University have developed 5 NeuroRights: 
Mental Privacy, Personal Identity, Free Will, Equal Access to Mental Augmentation and Protection Against Algorithmic Bias.
The NeuroRights Initiative has proposed a kind of Hippocratic Oath, similar to that taken by doctors around the world in their commitment to protect their patients, but applied to companies. 
The aim is to secure a commitment to ensure that digital advances do not interfere with neurorights and this has focused on the acceptance of such an oath by the world’s leading technology companies.
Inspired by and based on these NeuroRights, Roel Heremans and his team are designing a series of 5 interactive installations to make each NeuroRight tangible for participants. 
They want participants to explore unasked questions about the future of our NeuroRights in a world where BCIs are ubiquitous.
Wearing a real-time BCI headphone in front of a custom made Arcade Machine, participants will be guided through an aesthetic experience where their mental state is transparent and malleable. 
With this, the team hopes to evoke a visceral reaction so participants feel the need for NeuroRights on a personal level.

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Roel Heremans – The NeuroRight Arcades

Tabita Rezaire is infinity longing to experience itself in human form. Her path as an 
artist, devotee, yogi, doula, and farmer is all geared towards manifesting the divine 
in herself and beyond. As an eternal seeker, Tabita’s yearning for connection finds 
expression in her cross-dimensional practices, which envision network sciences &#8211; 
organic, electronic and spiritual &#8211; as healing technologies to serve the shift 
towards heart consciousness.
Embracing digital, corporeal and ancestral memory, she digs into scientific 
imaginaries and mystical realms to tackle the colonial wounds and energetic 
misalignments that affect the songs of our body-mind-spirits. Tabita’s work is 
rooted in time-spaces where technology and spirituality merge as fertile ground to 
nourish visions for connection and emancipation. Through screen interfaces and 
healing circles, her offerings aim to nurture our collective growth and expand our 
capacity for togetherness.
Tabita is based near Cayenne in French Guyana, where she is birthing AMAKABA &#8211; 
her vision for collective healing in the Amazonian forest. Tabita is devoted to 
becoming a mother to the world.
Her offerings have been shared widely – Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, 
Paris; MASP, São Paulo; Serpentine, London; MoMa, NY; New Museum, NY; Gropius 
Bau, Berlin; MMOMA, Moscow; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; ICA London; 
V&amp;A London; National Gallery Denmark; The Broad LA; MoCADA, NY; Tate Modern, 
London; Museum of Modern Art, Paris – and presented for international biennales 
in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Kochi, Athens, and Berlin and Sydney.
She is represented by the Goodman Gallery in South Africa.

Tabita Rezaire

Deep Down Tidal excavates the power of water as a conductive interface for communication. From submarine cables to sunken cities, drowned bodies, hidden histories of navigations and sacred signal transmissions, the ocean is home to a complex set of communication networks. As modern information and communication technologies become omnipresent in our industrialized realities, we urgently need to understand the cultural, political and environmental forces that have shaped them.
Looking at the infrastructure of submarine fibre optic cables that transfers our digital data, it is striking to realize that the cables are layered onto colonial shipping routes. Once again the bottom of the sea becomes the interface of painful yet celebrated advancements masking the violent deeds of modernity.
Deep Down Tidal navigates the ocean as a graveyard for Black knowledge and technologies. 
From Atlantis, to the ‘Middle passage’, or refuge seekers presently drowning in the Mediterranean, the ocean abyss carries lost histories and broken lineages while simultaneously providing the global infrastructure for our current telecommunications. Could the violence of the Internet lie in its physical architecture?
Like countless African and indigenous traditional sciences, research in physics now suggest that water has the ability to memorize and copy information, disseminating it through its streams. What data is our world’s water holding? What messages are we encoding into our waters? Beyond historical sorrow, water is a portal to other realities as its mysterious sealife of mermaids, water deities, and serpent spirits celebrated in many cosmologies remind us.
Deep Down Tidal enquires the intrictate cosmological, spiritual, political and technological entangled narratives sprung from water as an interface to understand the legacies of colonialism.

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