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Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night
Wilson‘s projects utilize research-oriented, site-specific, and methodologically eclectic approaches to track the inertia of modernity through contemporary ecological crises and into speculative futures.
Other species’ senses are tuned into phenomena outside of the human sensorium, from subtle electromagnetic fields and minor fluctuations in turbulence or vibrations in air, water, and earth to the faintest of molecular traces. Interspecies Interfaces engages with emerging developments in sensory augmentation and AI, exploring how the convergence of these technologies could profoundly alter humans’ ability to attune themselves with other animals’ sensory realities. During their residency at EPFL, Wilson and Tapprest will prototype scenarios where these technological convergences have been extended and become widely adopted, considering their potential implications on collective values and behavior.
AI is fast becoming the interpretative layer between large complex datasets, including recordings of animal communication. While postindustrial humans mostly encounter AI outputs as text and images on screens, sensory augmentation could aid in translating this information into other ambient sensing modalities, opening up the possibility of expanding interspecies and environmental awareness from intellectual channels to affective, experiential channels within human lifeworlds. The duo’s research at EPFL will result in a series of cinematic vignettes that invite audiences to inhabit speculative worlds following the arrival of interspecies interfaces.
Matthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025 Picture : Remy Ugarte Vallejos1/15
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Matthew C. Wilson, Attunements, Film (work in progress). Developed with the support of Walk&Talk – Arts Festival and Mondriaan Fonds11/15
Matthew C. Wilson, Factitious Reservoirs, Simulated extraterrestrial brines in centrifuge vials, pure silicon, machine learning generated videos (from a training set based on alien oceans) on LCD screens, Illumina flow cells, Aputure MC lights, electrical cables. Developed with the support of galeria SKALA and Mondriaan Fonds12/15
Matthew C. Wilson, Attunements, Film (work in progress). Developed with the support of Walk&Talk – Arts Festival and Mondriaan Fonds13/15
Matthew C. Wilson, Attunements, Film (work in progress). Developed with the support of Walk&Talk – Arts Festival and Mondriaan Fonds14/15
Matthew C. Wilson, in collaboration with Veli Studio, Priya Lorenz, and Vanessa Vandy. The Hidden Layers, Film. Developed within the framework of Aalto University’s artist-in-residence program with additional support from Mondriaan Fonds15/15
Matthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025 Picture : Remy Ugarte VallejosMatthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025 Picture : Remy Ugarte VallejosMatthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025 Picture : Remy Ugarte VallejosMatthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025Matthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025Matthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025 Picture : Remy Ugarte VallejosMatthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025 Picture : Remy Ugarte VallejosMatthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025Matthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025Matthew C. Wilson, Interspecies Interfaces (Part I): Into the Endless Night, 2025Matthew C. Wilson, Attunements, Film (work in progress). Developed with the support of Walk&Talk – Arts Festival and Mondriaan FondsMatthew C. Wilson, Factitious Reservoirs, Simulated extraterrestrial brines in centrifuge vials, pure silicon, machine learning generated videos (from a training set based on alien oceans) on LCD screens, Illumina flow cells, Aputure MC lights, electrical cables. Developed with the support of galeria SKALA and Mondriaan FondsMatthew C. Wilson, Attunements, Film (work in progress). Developed with the support of Walk&Talk – Arts Festival and Mondriaan FondsMatthew C. Wilson, Attunements, Film (work in progress). Developed with the support of Walk&Talk – Arts Festival and Mondriaan FondsMatthew C. Wilson, in collaboration with Veli Studio, Priya Lorenz, and Vanessa Vandy. The Hidden Layers, Film. Developed within the framework of Aalto University’s artist-in-residence program with additional support from Mondriaan Fonds
Photo: Silvia Longhi – Fabrica Research Centre
Matthew C. Wilson
Matthew C. Wilson is a filmmaker and artist from the United States based in the Netherlands. In his videos, sculptures, and installations, viewers meet human, non-human, and inter-subjective agents that are entangled with natural processes and shape-shifting historical forces. His projects utilize research-oriented, site-specific, and methodologically eclectic approaches to track the inertia of modernity through contemporary ecological crises and into speculative futures. Wilson holds an MFA in visual arts from Columbia University and has been a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and the Jan van Eyck Academie. He has held numerous fellowships including most recently the KNAW – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences artist in residence fellowship at NIAS – Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam. Wilson’s exhibitions have included Galeria Skala, Poznań, PL, Walk&Talk Festival of Art, São Miguel, Azores, PT, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool, UK, among others. His films have screened on Vdrome.org, at IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, and HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
