SUUPERPOSE

Photo: Nuno Roque. Video: sound by Mila Chiral, camera by Ginés Olivares. Mahalla, Berlin New Media Week, 2025.

CONTACT

beatrice.babin (at) gmail.com
hello (at) yaronmaim.art

NEW

Berlin New Media Week
Mahalla, Sunday 7 Sept, 6pm
Analogue Glitch x AI Live Visuals
Sound by Mila Chiral

ABOUT

Suuperpose (Babin x Maïm) is a Berlin-based duo working live with analogue glitch and AI image-making. They ask what happens when technology is misused in real time. What if a screen grew hair: ugly yet alive, profane yet generative, an experimental space for being human together? Their immersive audio-visual worlds insist that human–machine collaboration cannot belong to a single artist.Béatrice Babin aka BeBab is a visual artist, cinema film editor and professor for film editing at HFF Munich, engaging with temporal complexity in moving-image assemblage. @bebabYaron Maïm is a media artist, performer, and creative technologist whose practice bends systems into playful processes of transformation.
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WORK

Suuperpose (Babin x Maïm) is a collaboration built on the friction and pleasure of analogue and digital image-making. We met at School of Machines and since then have developed a joint live practice merging glitchy analogue video synthesizers with AI-generated images, Super 8mm film, watercolors, 3D animation, and drawing machines.What matters to us is not mastery but generosity: to inspire collaboration, demystify art-tech, and open tools. Each performance is iterative and site-specific, shaped by the hosting architecture. We share how we build our systems so others can remix and learn. Our process composts virtual and physical materials into shifting constellations.Formally, our work sits in the tradition of spatial montage: multi-channel dialogues where meaning happens between frames. We borrow from Deleuze’s movement- and time-image, Bacon’s triptychs, and Sébire’s climate polyptychs. We test their logics live, in the unstable grid where analogue glitches and AI outputs collide. Our collaboration itself is a method: a constant exchange of images, fragments, and failures, where two voices confront each other to open new readings. Suuperpose is not one vision, but a system of dialogue, humans and machines composing together.At times this dialogue slides into devotion, at others into humour: a hairy screen rising at the junction of two rivers, uncanny and ridiculous. Through this mess we touch techno-social hyperobjects: AI bias, dataset legacies, machine agency. As Morton writes, phenomena like climate change or AI are too vast to perceive whole, we only ever encounter fragments.We aim to expand into analogue glitch live motion-capture-driven AI generation. Motion capture still defaults to a narrow, standardized body, a legacy that produces exclusionary images and real safety risks. By training our own model on alternative datasets and staging them live, we confront bias directly: Who is seen, who is erased?This research extends further: if AI is a “new species,” what futures do we script by keeping it under regimes of control? Do we reproduce enslavement, or imagine interconnected intelligences alive with humanity rather than for humanity?Suuperpose insists that collaboration, between humans, machines, and infrastructures, cannot belong to a single artist. Artists with lived experience of erasure are precisely those able to reframe how society feels and thinks about AI futures. Our work contributes to this necessary conversation, inviting others into it.