Anke is a media artist based in Berlin is interested in exploring new ways of narrative and shaping them into immersive, sensory installations. She experiments primarily with XR and spatialized sound, frequently collaborating with musicians.
Anke‘s work deals with themes of hybridization in contemporary technological utopias and speculative futures in the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout all her works, animation always serves as a tool to inject a surreal element and bring fine art practice such as drawing and painting into the filmic experience. Anke‘s background as a set designer helps her to design the stage for these moments of distorted reality to take place.
Her works have been shown at festivals and exhibitions around the world including the Centre Pompidou, Currents, Laval Virtual Recto VRso, SAT Montreal, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Vienna Shorts and the Future Media FEST Taipei. She received scholarships from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, the German Künstlerbund and the Research Institute of the Deutsche Museum, Munich.
Motheroid
HD Video / 06:57 min / 2024
Motheroid is the birth of a maternal voice created by future technologies, exploring the uncertain border between the organic and the artificial.
Motheroid describes a lifeform starting from a female-like hybrid voice. Initially conceived through technology by the patriarchal will to power, it is at first docile, sensual and malleable but over time slowly breaks free, develops characteristics of its own and takes an autonomous form: an intricate being unifying Flora and Fauna in its ever shapeshifting body.
Behind every human voice there is an actual unique body with unique sound features, timbre, an individual story, emotions, hopes, delusions etc. Every voice is almost a fingerprint, embodied and original. What happens if this very personal voice becomes arbitrarily reproducible by a machine? Are we hacking humanity at one of its cores?
“Motheroid” is a collaboration with the sound composer Edoardo Micheli.