Crosslucid

Tidal Transmissions : Navigation

video constructed with a multi-agent system, 8'28'', without sound, 2026

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Inspired by non-Western indigenous navigation methods, which rely on topographical intelligence – meaning that movements are conceived in relation to the specific characteristics of the site rather than in terms of one’s own position – Crosslucid has created Tidal Transmissions: Navigation, a video composed of images whose movements are generated from ocean data flows collected by a network of satellites to monitor sea levels and model a climate map of the Earth’s water surfaces. The duo draws an analogy between the mobility networks of railway stations, more specifically the rails that allow for fluid movement, and the moving surface of water. This parallel leads the artists to develop a poetic sequence of images, composed of organic forms that seem to spring from the depths of the oceans to take their place on the LED walls of the platforms. The artists also point out that all digital manipulation travels through a network of cables installed in our oceans and buried under a mass of marine sediments. The quasi-symbiotic relationship between the marine world and the digital universe then serves as the foundation for the creation of the multi-agent system TIDE – Today It Dissolves Everything, Tomorrow It Deepens Existence, whose main characteristics are indeterminacy.

What the train station’s audience observes is TIDE’s response to its programming by artists. The system is a dynamic agent, and its programming is minimal so that chance can emerge in the gaps. It addresses travellers by reminding them that in a world governed by a form of predeterminism, it is still possible to navigate without a destination.

Production: Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain, Geneva, for the MIRE programme

Autres artistes à Lancy-Bachet

Véronique Goël

Lauren Huret

Crosslucid (*2018) is a collective of artists who mainly develop interdisciplinary collaborative projects, co-evolving with technology. Their approach is post-humanist, meaning that human beings are no longer considered the sole figure in our value system, but rather that this system integrates all forms of organic, biological and robotic life within it. The non-human is thus envisaged as an active agent in the project. Crosslucid explores questions related to the self as a complex network, composed of various technoscientific elements, and proposes a symbiotic collaboration with the machine. The collective uses poetic artificial intelligence to bring to life speculative films that envisage potential futures, richly inhabited by organic and colourful figures. The idea of process, of work in progress, is central; universes are co-constructed through experimentation and iteration, forming, according to Crosslucid, intuitive essays.