Dossier of Tentacular

Tuomas A. Laitinen / Finland, United States / 2018 / Czech Premiere / 10 min.

synopsis

The intricate structure of the film seems to unfurl in several tangled tentacles: one strand is made up of liminal ideas of non-human or more-than-human subjectivities, another layer is a lecture attacking institutional forms of knowledge production and preservation delivered by a man who is all too familiar with them, and the third layer is a poetic artificial intelligence generating texts based on the work of Samuel Beckett.

“Some [scientists] go so far as to say that [cephalopods] have nine brains: one central one, and then all eight arms have enough neurons to allow ‘independent’ operation. My work and research with cephalopods have been mimicking this kind of decentralized ethos.”

Zdroj citátu: Bomb magazine.

biography

Finnish multimedia artist Tuomas Aleksander Laitinen (born 1976) works with moving image, sound, light, glass, algorithms and chemical and microbiological processes. He deals with ecological themes, critical reflection on ways of creating knowledge and various incarnations of the concept of the extended mind.