A Tale of the End

Bio-art installation

Aksiniya Peycheva (Bulgaria)

A Tale of the End is an interdisciplinary project in which the artist Aksiniya Peycheva collaborates with the physicist Martin Yordanov and Yordanka Dermendzhieva (microbiologist).

The project is an ongoing dialogue between visual art, artificial intelligence and microbiology. During this process, a constant transfer of the same visual information occurs between these three fundamentally different fields.

The project explores how visual information becomes an indicator of the functionality of the whole system and questions the effectiveness of the natural laws of communication at a fundamental level. Each transfer damages parts of the image because of the very nature of the system to which it belongs at that moment. In the same way that artificial intelligence decides to place a pixel on a certain spot, bacteria decide what the visual image should look like, only they follow different rules because their purpose is also fundamentally different, already linked to their survival. Thus, the result is also quite different - a (semi) destroyed human image.