Stochastic Datasets

Stochastic Datasets is a 3d video that is based on a same-named fictional podcast taking place in an alternative future. Throughout the podcast, two characters who are activists talk about AI, health, technology and activism. In this fictional reality, past social movements like the Socialist Patients Collective (Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv) from the late 70s in Germany have survived and continue to exist together with newer struggles challenging the technocratic and hyper-capitalist society. While the characters chat about energy shortages, AI diagnose tools and autonomous spots at private libraries, the viewer examines different objects and remnants in the recording room.

İpek Burçak
İpek Burçak is a multidisciplinary artist born in Istanbul and based in Berlin. She studied media and conceptual art at the School of Arts Kassel and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She works with various media, such as video, sound, installation, performance, and publishing. With a speculative approach, she investigates technologies as commons, neurodiversity, and legacies of resistance movements. She has shown her work and performed internationally, at Galerie im Turm, re:publica in Berlin, SoMad in New York, Dia Chelsea, Depo Istanbul, and Kosminen in Helsinki among many others. She is also 1/2 of Well Gedacht Publishing, an artist duo that engages in publishing practices and open source ways of digital publishing.