and a composer who gets her inspiration from nothing more than a chance. but we begin with german photographer your coal vest who was living the high life 1st as a male model and then as a top fashion photographer until 8 years ago when he was asked to photograph his holiness the dalai lama joining his visit to germany getting to know him best promised a visit to bet and highlight the problems facing the country then he went on to the amazon to help indigenous tribes that and now he's using his photographic skills to promote heroes of the sea. environmental photographer your code vests latest project draws attention to the state of our oceans with shocking results. this is not an island but a mountain of plastic off haiti doesn't alter totalities or places of total

pollution or beaches have been destroyed where people live in total misery mentioning. how the spent 10 days in haiti last april the island state has a severe weiss problem he accompanied an environmentalist who pays locals to collect plastic which is then recycled there are more than 150000000 tonnes of plastic in the ocean. this year the environmental photo festival horizons in seeing stone the german coast focused its attention on the environment under threat in. america really got these are certain oddly enough this kind of horror also has a strange fascination for me we're like hunters on the lookout for these moments because we know these images are triggers that every human being can understand emotionally it's a value. for his project heroes of the say oh this is documenting the work of

those fighting against the destruction of our oceans this was with the conservation organization sea shepherd for 4 weeks off the coast of west africa documenting overfishing and senseless torture. up to live off an option for spent many weeks on ships and the work of these activists these biologists these people i followed and was with and worked with they're my heroes. at the beginning of december focused and 2 of his friends planned to cross the atlantic you know to raise awareness for heroes of the sea. the photos he's taken for his project will be used for a book and video material for a documentary film. because of the enormous respect for the have enormous respect for the ocean because of the unpredictability of what can happen there you can never underestimate the power of the water and the power of the waves

that. are life threatening on taking to show us reality. to australia and the city of linz not perhaps as well known for its cultural gems as vienna all salzburg but it does have something no other european city has a festival called electronica which combines up with technology and every year explores how the digital revolution is turning our lives upside down and in 2014 the city was officially awarded the title of unesco city of media arts with its own oz electronica museum which is just being renovated. here on the banks of the danube river a giant u.f.o. appears to have landed the ares electronica center in linz is celebrating its

reopening with a new exhibition that's all about artificial intelligence smart machines that are set to change our lives in ways nothing short of revolutionary. because isa and became cheo is a real game changer not just a turbo boost of the digitalisation clean and i mean it's the beginning of a whole new set of rules and this is a development we consciously leave to engineers or take companies alone we as a society all have to have a say in this in. ai for everyone without hype or hysteria present a playful. division here isn't one of humans versus machines but of the machine as a part of us human made. visitors faces blend together showing one of ai's dangers the potential for deception fakes and fraud who's who. use doing the talking we're entering an era in which our enemies can make it look

like anyone is signing anything at any point in time who may not be who you think it is what we trust from the internet. may i can even bring the dead or artworks to life. but it has a long way to go so-called deep learning is supposed to allow this computer to recognize objects but it clearly still is learning what's this a lemon a tennis ball an apple. beyond the challenges and the risks the curators see the possibility. of the movie. the opportunities that will come from a awe in machine learning may be really important if we want to solve the climate crime. the or even get it under control boy. here the goal is getting people to join the conversation and the younger the better put on your 3 d.

glasses that deep space section takes kids and teens on a journey with 8 k. ultra high rez technology. from the human face. to outer space. and each show and it's with a dance partner. became this that's open time kids have a slightly different approach when they come commitment they also have some pre-set notions but they're a lot more open they aren't afraid and they come and talk it all name and they're constantly exploring. the doors electronica center in the lives austria is a rendezvous with our not so distant future a clearer view of where we're heading next.

my colleague david leavitt's is here with me now david looks pretty cool but also a little creepy as well i mean hey i can make anyone say anything it likes really. obama yeah it's a little bit dangerous actually this is a technique called deep fake that has been used actually to create fake news and it is scary in the era of fake news when you can have a politician give a fake press conference and post it online it's also been used to create fake porn using real people who are not porn actors so. great for creative work if you want to make mona lisa talk in your movie but this is really a technology that we have to be very careful indeed now let's talk about the electronics that sensor recently reopened is much more than a family museum isn't it is there are actually. researchers there who are at the cutting edge of ai and the arts i'm going to show you one example it's a guy whose work is pretty cool maybe a little creepy ali nick cron who's

a scientist and a musician now he's teaching ai to replicate human responses to music that means someday you might be at a concert with an ai robot sitting next to you and when they have goosebumps at the same time that you've got goosebumps then you'll know that this guy allie make wrongs work has paid off that's all this is taking place and. you know it's not like vienna or something but known for bold low tech pleasures i'm thinking of the yummy cake the linz atoll to makes its aims and you're going to bring that up. yeah i'm putting on having a piece of that later yeah that's actually what the city still best known for this recipe that outdates ai by 3 or 4 centuries actually so wins austria is trying to update its image a little bit trying to come into the future and beyond the r.'s electric. electric tronic a program is also banking on creativity in general another really cool attraction

is the city's murals at its industrial harbor now just about 7 years ago artists started transforming this harbor and so it's now called mural harbor it's got hundreds of works by international crews from 30 countries and what's great is that you can take a boat tour to see them all this is the biggest space of its kind in europe so if you're if you're there you know i was always a mile of information thank you very much. now composers are inspired by many things love longing heartache perhaps they're inspired by other music or sometimes other musicians and there's the sun the moon the planets go stuff post wrote a 7 movement ok stroll sweet about them all the see the countryside maybe even a magnificent building but furniture oh more and more specifically chaz yes that's when the muse strikes for pin is to compose a face straka is she is getting inspired.

on a park bench by berlin's brandenburg gate face traffic composes music inspired by seating these are the sounds of the bench near the city's t.v. tower. mishap that inspired me at what inspired me here with a fairly long straight parts and individual stretches that create a kind of linearity. to her classic chest sounds like this. new cd instrumental chazz she interpreted furniture pieces that wrote design history as she did some research in berlin's museum of decorative arts. to her this chair by american design a child's eans can only be jazz. a design icon is torn it's number 14 bistro chair from 859.

and when they think of when you see this beast roach chair the curved form brings guitars and double bases to mind how it's got something romantic about it had the whole of us one tissues. still seen here was created in 1954 by swiss architect max below here the musical parts into lock with one another like the furniture pieces dovetail joints instrumental chairs brings together piano guitar bass and drums. for their work the composer waded through countless catalogs and literature on design and here at an art booksellers in the west of bilin. this tape table was created by the bow house disciple eric brendel. to fish strata this piece from 1924. sounds playful.

strikeout jazz pianist he is the music in tables and chains. it just goes to show you can be and sponsored by anything i'm why not that's it for this edition more on the website web site as always at d.w. dot com slash culture for now though for myself and all the crew.

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