SNN #3: Forms of the Living (FOTL) is a new 35 minute Audio-Visual performance by Chris Salter, Alex Saunier and Takashi Ikegami. Part three of a series of works that utilize Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) to drive media (SNN#0 – Totem – Barbican Center, 2019; SNN#1: The Speed of Thought Itself, Impakt Festival, Utrecht; SNN#2: Light/Space Modulator after Moholy-Nagy, LLUM_BNC 2020), the performance takes place simultaneously in four distant locations: live in Montréal, Berlin and Tokyo and online on Mozilla Hubs. Using light, video, sound, VR and artificial life algorithms and neural networks, Salter, Saunier and Ikegami together with a group of international collaborators orchestrate a global experience that while internationally shared, is impossible to grasp in its entirety.

Although the performance took place live, signing up on virtual.mutek.org will enable you to see the full streamed performance until November 30, 2020.