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\u201cSoundtrack for UUmwelt\u201d is an electroacoustic composition for Pierre Huyghe\u2019s 2019 work Uumwelt. Based on data obtained from neuroscience labs in France\u00a0and the US, brain activity from mice and rats was rendered audible as sound and used to compose a 45\u2019 soundtrack accompanying Huyghe\u2019s video installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Pierre Huyghe began with a speculative situation and selected a set of elementary components for its construction. These components are building blocks for young animals, children and intelligent machines to mentally play with, and communicate only using their minds. Huyghe gave these components to be imagined by a subject. The person\u2019s brain activity was captured as they imagined the elements they were prompted to think of. These thoughts, or \u2018mental images\u2019 have been reconstructed by a deep neural network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This series of mental images, here in process\u2028of formation, are now presented on large LED screens distributed throughout the gallery and are endlessly modified by external conditions: light, temperature and humidity levels, the presence of insects, and the gaze of visitors.
The instability of the images displayed on the screens is matched by the exhibition\u2019s inability to resolve itself as existing in the present or the past, even as it evolves towards a future version of itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition view of Uumwelt at Serpentine Gallery, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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