During Amsterdam Dance Event, Nxt Museum, Cercle, and W Hotels unite to create an ephemeral digital art showcase at W Amsterdam. The installation will engulf Cercle & W Hotels visitors in alternative worlds, transporting them to all new inspiring digital dimensions for this week of ADE programming.
While Cercle democratizes access to natural and cultural heritages through music and video, multimedia artist and AI professor Amelia Winger-Bearskin merges technology with intergenerational storytelling to create positive impacts on communities and the environment. Her work, "MIDNIGHT & TO BODY," explores communication networks and the preservation of ethical practices across generations.
In 'Midnight,' Winger-Bearskin presents a digital artwork that showcases evolving landscapes from an aerial perspective. Through an oval lens, the piece invites us to contemplate the vast expanse beyond our limited earthly view. Galvanized by the passing of laws governing the space above buildings, the artist prompts us to consider the protocol for observing the sky. By highlighting the sky's significance as a timeless source of wisdom and storytelling, the artwork urges us to acknowledge our role in its ecosystem and resist reducing it to a mere resource.
'To Body' complements the concept of 'Midnight' as the geometric shapes surrounding the oval transform into ethereal guardian figures. This transformation serves as a reminder to reconnect with our inherent responsibility towards the environment and those who inhabited it before us, and those still to come. 

 *This artwork is on show as a large-scale audio-visual installation at Nxt Museum as part of the exhibition: Realtime ‘Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems”. Open daily till late in Amsterdam Noord


USEFUL INFORMATION
This art installation is open on:
Wednesday, October 18: 9 AM - 5.30 PM
Thursday, October 19: 9 AM - 5.30 PM
Friday, October 20: 2 PM - 5.30 PM
Saturday, October 21: 9 AM - 5.30 PM


ABOUT NXT MUSEUM
Nxt Museum – the home of new media art opened in Amsterdam in August 2020 and is the first museum in the Netherlands fully dedicated to art, technology, science & sound.
Nxt Museum exhibits and commissions ambitious, large-scale new media art installations born of interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, designers, technologists, sound builders, and scientists. The museum’s three-fold program, comprising exhibitions, performance, and education, is designed to appeal to a broad range of visitors and their interests – from music and sound to performance art, dance, creative coding, NFTs, Web 3.0, and more – and is consistently led by the museum’s mission to seek, show and question what’s next.
More on www.nxtmuseum.com


ABOUT AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN 
“I use new kinds of technology to tell new kinds of stories. Specifically, I’m interested in science storytelling around environmental futures. My main area of ecological research is water. I stand with those who defy categorization. We are prototyping just futures, in places that do not exist. For people, they will one day be, for the liquid, the hybrid, the cyber, the unreal” - Amelia Winger-Bearskin, 2023
Amelia Winger-Bearskin is a Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts, at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She is also the founder of the AI Climate Justice Lab, the Talk To Me About Water Collective, and the Stupid Hackathon. In 2022 she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award as part of the Sundance AOP Fellowship cohort for her project CLOUD WORLD / SKYWORLD which was part of The Whitney’s Sunrise/Sunset series.
In 2021, she was a fellow at Stanford University as their artist and technologist in residence, made possible by the Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning (VAF).
In 2020 she founded Wampum Codes, an award-winning podcast and an ethical framework for software development based on indigenous values of co-creation, while a Mozilla Fellow at the MIT Co-Creation Studio.
In 2019 she was a delegate at the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion for His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama,  at his World  Headquarters in Dharmsala, India.  
In 2018 she was awarded the 100k Alternative Realities Prize for her Virtual Reality Project: Your Hands Are Feet from Engadget and Verizon Media. This was also the year that nonprofit IDEA New Rochelle won the $1 Million Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge for their VR/AR Citizen toolkit to help the community co-design their city.