Interspecies Interfaces (Part II) – Shape of Language
Tapprest‘s collaborative work explores how emerging developments in technology and social imaginaries interact with the post-industrial subject in affective, preconscious and sensorial ways, often within speculative scenarios.
Dates of the exhibition: 06.06–29.06.2025 Tuesday to Sunday: 11 am – 6 pm
Interspecies Interfaces (Part II) – Shape of Language
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.
Emilia Tapprest with Victor Evink, Embodied Ambitopias, 2021. Series of single channel videos/films, with the support of Stimuleringsfonds, Jan van Eyck Academie and the Sussmann Foundation
Emilia Tapprest with Victor Evink, Scent of Time, 2022. Single channel video/film, with the support of AVEK, Stimuleringsfonds and the Mondriaan Fund
Emilia Tapprest with Victor Evink, Embodied Ambitopias, 2021. Series of single channel videos/films, with the support of Stimuleringsfonds, Jan van Eyck Academie and the Sussmann Foundation
Emilia Tapprest, Sonzai Zone ,2019. Single channel video/film
Emilia Tapprest (NVISIBLE.STUDIO) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and design researcher based in Amsterdam. Her collaborative work explores ways in which systems, interfaces, and more-than-human actors interact with postindustrial subjects in affective and preconscious ways. Tapprest is tutor at the Geo-Design MA at Design Academy Eindhoven and previous resident of the Institute for Advanced study at UvA (2023–24), Rupert AiR (2023), Stimuleringsfonds’ Talent Development program (2021–22), and the Jan van Eyck Academy (2021). Her projects have been presented at platforms such as VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Bologna Art City, Vdrome, MU Hybrid Art House, Kunstverein Schattendorf, and the National Space Centre Ireland.
