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PETERMFRIESS


LIFEWORLDS





Worlds in formation through art, science, living systems and machine imagination.
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TOPOGRAPHY WITHOUT COORDINATES, Artklub Bonn / DAIDA IN 24h/24_PARADISE, NoCode / JULES VERNES, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium / DIABLERIES AUGMENTEES, TinyGallery, Brussels / STARTS BOOK—SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ARTS COOPERATION, Hantje Cantz / AI & ART, COLLEGE OF DESIGN AND INNOVATION, Tongji University, Shanghai / COMPUTATIONAL CULTURE, THEGATE FESTIVAL, HLRS, Stuttgart

01 / SELECTED LIFEWORLDS

TOPOGRAPHY WITHOUT COORDINATES
A project of perceptual snapshots rather than a fixed map, using AI as an amplifier to explore how language, memory, and orientation shift under algorithmic influence, leaving not a final answer but an ongoing process of losing and regaining one’s bearings.
     ❲ open website ❳



AN AI DREAMS ~
A surreal, existential journey into the recursive mind of an AI, exploring identity, memory, and self-awareness through a neo-deco visual language in which the machine’s inner world becomes both dreamscape and mirror.
     ❲ open website ❳



DARWIN 2
A research-creation project linking Darwin’s foundational ideas on evolution to contemporary questions of existence, and adaptation, unfolding through an AI-supported dialogue between human and non-human perspectives.      ❲ open website ❳



M.LUMINARA
An exploration of life-likeness through AI-based model organisms, this work examines how synthetic forms begin to simulate presence, behavior, and biological plausibility, opening a speculative space between the artificial, the animate, and the almost alive. ❲ open website ❳



WEDDING_ BEAUTY
This work explores matrimony as a cultural fiction and visual ritual, where wedding dresses become shaped figures suspended between symbolic tradition, constructed beauty, and digital imagination. ❲ open website ❳     ❲ NFT ❳



SECRET_ GARDEN
From scanned plants and in-between objects, this work conjures eerie bouquet-like presences that drift through light, texture, and illusion, as if new creatures were emerging from a fragile threshold. ❲ open website ❳     ❲ NFT ❳



PRIMEVAL ATOM
Combining generative imagery with a sound composition by Jean-Pierre Deleuze, performed by Kaoru Tashiro, this work explores the origins of the universe through a speculative dialogue between science, philosophy, and art, inspired by Georges Lemaître’s primeval atom.      ❲ open in Vimeo ❳



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An unrealised AV/AR installation that imagines reality as a dynamic habitat where dimensions remain fluid and familiar physical laws are continually rewritten, inviting viewers into a field of shifting relations, distant forces and unstable environmental perception. ❲ open in Vimeo ❳



CONVERSATIONS BEYOND THE BINARY
Five fictional animated dialogues between humans and humanoid robots explore appearance, gender stereotypes, loneliness, emotional depth, ethics, supremacy, identity, personhood and consciousness, asking how coexistence with artificial life may reshape social and philosophical boundaries.
❲ open in Vimeo ❳



THE_OTHERVERSE
A 4K/VR contemporary cabinet of curiosities inspired by the Wunderkammer, combining AI-generated forms of existence, virtual environments, sound, rhythm and storytelling to expand the Metaverse and frame resilience as an active artistic practice.
❲ open in Vimeo ❳



EBT
A game-like audiovisual journey through transhumanism, using algorithms and weak AI to connect body enhancement, life extension, Chinese mythology, Western philosophy and speculative lifeforms, making near and distant futures emotionally experienceable.
❲ open in Vimeo ❳



CYBER_ESSENCE
An immersive large-scale video imagining a future metaphysics in which technologically mediated spirituality becomes configurable and accessible, organised around meaning, resilience, dimensional access, mind and matter, and disappearance.
❲ open in Vimeo ❳



MARS ABSTRACTIONS
A speculative audiovisual series that playfully tests how future environments and habitats might move beyond modified copies of life on Earth, using visible and hidden energies to stimulate imagination about alternative settlement and responsiveness. ❲ open website ❳



DRONE/ON/DRONE
A collaborative sound project by Björn W. Jauss and PETERMFRIESS combining drone flight, environmental resonance, electronics, autonomy and improvisation. Double- and triple-quad configurations turn aerial movement into layered compositions across nature and technological third spaces.
❲ open website ❳



THE INSTITUTE FOR DESIRABLE BEING
Created with Martine Nicole-Rojina, this mindset-movement proposes a “des-topia”: an actionable fusion of technology, sensory experience and societal evolution. Through mixed realities, movement, listening, light, taste and embodied exchange, it researches more connected and sustainable ways of being. ❲ open website ❳
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