ZENZ(A)I

Sayings about the weather represent the cultural heritage of a changing landscape and time, as well as exemplifying the search for models over generations to understand natural phenomena and therefore predict the future. Predictions based on probability theories, but also on imaginative capacity. ZENZ(A)I is a neural network that processes information from the outside world and learns from it. Artificial intelligence creates sayings about the weather from existing weather data and sayings, thereby confronting principles such as failure, wandering and open, unguided discovery. The project deals with issues related to the configuration and functioning of the common sense and senses of artificial intelligence involved in perceiving and understanding reality.

Anna Pascó (Barcelona, 1990) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, in the class of Olaf Nicolai. Her work has been displayed at Kunsthalle Kempten, Galerie Britta von Rettberg, Kunstarkaden München, Kunstverein München and Eingen+Art Lab Berlin, among others. In 2020, she published Stickers with Bomdia Berlin. She has received a Hans-Rudolf-Stiftung scholarship, has been a beneficiary of the Ambartgent project and has won a Windmann Kunstpreis, 15HOCH2 and Landeshauptstadt München visual arts prize, as well as winning a prize at the XXI Biennial of Catalan Contemporary Art. The work can be found in the collections of Staff Stiftung and Stadtmuseum München.