Creative Future Lab

Ulrich Formann's artist talk about his site-specific real-time Installation Ground Truth (2023) was accepted for ISEA Dubai 2026. The installation combines live satellite information of active fires with social media data from Snapchat. This app allows users to upload photos and videos with embedded geolocation, which can only be viewed for a single day. The combination of remotely sensed measurements with current content creates a unique, real-time ground truth that wouldn't be possible to obtain in any other way. The project was developed in collaboration with the Biogeochemical Department of the Max Planck Society, ELLIS Unit Jena, Germany and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena as part of a künstlerische Tatsachen Art & Science residency.

The series of ISEA symposia is coordinated by ISEA International. Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic/Emerging Arts) is an international non-profit organisation fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. ISEA International Headquarters is supported by the University for the Creative Arts (UK).