‘Slowly Fading into Data’ is a speculative audiovisual project expressed in multiple artistic formats: a retro- game, a conceptual music album, a live a/v performance, and a short film. These audiovisual experiences are the results from Albert.DATA’s artistic research on disembodiment, extended cognition, hybrid beings, and synthetic identities.
The retro-game is based on a narrative-driven, interactive-storytelling, action-adventure experience. It is designed to be played more than once to discover all its hidden secrets, choices, easter eggs, and alternative endings. An intense cinematographic audiovisual experience that pushes your 8-bit perception and puts into test your exploration and philosophical skills. The project’s goal is to challenge standard audiovisual production methods by combining ‘low-tech’ (8-bit retro console) with ‘high-tech’ (artificial intelligence and procedural sound design) using game engine technologies. In specific, the experience presents 8-bit artistic game assets designed and produced using artificial intelligence techniques (machine learning applied to visual arts); and it also features 8-bit procedural music and sound design that experiments with and exploits the sound hardware of this iconic family of consoles.