Mukul Patel and Manu Luksch co-direct Ambient Information Systems, an arts+film production company and sci-art lab for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical artworks, events, arts residencies and environments. Of particular interest are concrete, contemporary issues that arise at the interface of social and technical infrastructures: access to information, use of public domain, sustainable structures.
Works range from hybrid media and responsive environments to film, sound/light installation and theatre/performance. The establishment of participative processes, the creation of tools, research and activist archiving are signal features of recent projects.
Art+Research
Art as research into data & futures
- Jargon Analytics a tool to highlight and question keywords associated with predictive infrastructures
- Hear/Here to SEE revealing the ubiquitous use of algorithmic decision making in public space
- Liberties Rewired exploring responses to the challenges faced in our increasingly algorithmically-managed society
- AI in the street reclaiming the smart street
- Predictive City ABC
- Data Shadow Theatre
- Publication AI on Fire
- pAIn
The first ten years
Ambient Information Systems came into being as an intermedia hub and website, www.ambientTV.NET, in 1999, emerging out of founding artist-activist Manu Luksch’s interest in extending the medium of film using the Internet. Under her co-directorship with Mukul Patel, it has since developed into a crucible for wider critical, interdisciplinary practice that takes numerous forms – the devising of tools, the creation of frameworks, the instigation of processes.
Manu
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Akha
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Mukul
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Unscheduled TV
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Wireless
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Love
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