Albert.DATA (Albert Barqué-Duran) is an artist and a researcher in Creative Technologies and Digital Art.

They earned a PhD and a Postdoc in Cognitive Science at City, University of London (UK). Albert's artistic research focuses on human-algorithm interaction during artistic and creative processes, and experimental formats and aesthetics.

They have exhibited and performed at Sonar+D (Barcelona), Ars Electronica (Linz), ZKM (Karlsruhe), SciArt Center (NY), McaM (Shanghai), and more. Albert was awarded with the Residency at Sonar+D x Factory Berlin in ‘20 and received an award from "Creative Europe Programme”, which endowed him as one of the 64 young "Culture Activists" in Europe in ‘19.

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‘Slowly Fading into Data’ – Live A/V Performance is an experimental show that is part of a speculative audiovisual project expressed in multiple artistic formats: Retro-Game, Music Album, Live A/V Performance, Film & Arcade Installation. A holistic experience resulting from Albert.DATA’s research on disembodiment, extended cognition, hybrid beings & synthetic identities. The artist and researcher presents their debut album with a live show that delves into the past to peer into the future. An avant-garde, ambient, and contemplative story of a human, slowly mutating into data: A transformative journey about non-human forms, the boundaries and extensions of experience, existence, and identity. The creation of new audiovisual instruments to interpret the last human reverberations. A step forward for the disintegration of the self. The performance aims to challenge standard audiovisual production methods by combining, in real-time, "low-tech" (an 8-bit retro console) with "high-tech" (Artificial Intelligence and procedural sound design) using game engine technologies. Furthermore, the project is also produced using research on 8-bit sound technologies and neural audio synthesis in real-time.

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CREDITS

Directed & Produced by: Albert.DATA / Albert Barque-Duran Co-

Produced by: New Art Foundation Light Technology Partner &

Film Co-Producer: Protopixel Film Art Direction

Manager: Sandra Camacho

Film Technical Manager: Ricard Martinez

Film Camera Operator: Santi Martinez

Film & Performance

Costume Design: Denise Graus

Film & Performance Faceware Design: Ewa Nowak

Production Assistant: Mayeli Varela

Lighting Manager: Kiks Canto

Academic Partners: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - En Residència Àrea Tallers La Salle Campus Barcelona - Universitat Ramon Llull (Master in Digital Arts & Creative Technologies)

Collaborators: La Casa de la Luz (Simon) Qosmo

Acknowledgments: GBStudio