Through its digital creations, u2p050 attempts to construct thought experiments that open up ways of questioning our contemporary world, and in particular its increasing digitalisation. To do this, u2p050 uses ambitious technologies in its works. For example, the artists use artificial intelligence, three-dimensional modelling, stereoscopic sound and interactive video production software. In extremely diverse forms - installations, texts or audiovisual productions - we explore a perspective in which the machine is no longer seen as a tool to be enslaved, but as a lens through which to view new worlds.
If machines are at the centre of our practice, it is because we believe that discovering a non-instrumental relationship with machines is essential. This involves a relationship with them as actors in creation, not as tools of production. We talk about machines by experimenting with them because they produce new thoughts in us.
For u2p050, creating requires questioning the conditions of artistic production. Our practice consists of integrating into a single entity professional functions that were separated in the twentieth century in the sphere of art: creation, financial management and criticism. In other words, writing texts, production, accounting and artistic creation are not separate processes for us, coming one after the other. They are processes that interact continuously and involve each other.
The first of our works is therefore our enterprise, which seeks to answer this question: How can we create works from the heterogeneity of practices? How can we think of all our practices as equally creative? This is why the six members of the studio come from a variety of disciplines: fine arts, computer science, humanities, management and sound engineering. This intermingling is reflected in the diversity of the creations and techniques used. We do not have a preferred medium and prefer to work in different directions: thinking about sound in relation to image, thinking about text as a support for image, or image as a support for concepts
