Artist: Christian Mio Locklair Medium: Video, Marble Stone Sculpture Duration: 10‘ 30“ Helin investigates new perspectives towards the relationship of an individual artistic intention in respect to the collective nature of human expressions. By blending the concepts of human, nature and technology, the project seeks to discuss a holistic concept of natural phenomena.  The technical approach for the project is based upon a novel procedure for Deep Learning in 3D space. The corresponding custom network architecture is trained on publicly available 3D shapes related to historical busts. To remove bias from the dataset and establish a universal view towards human expression, the process of producing Helin included material across all accessible epochs and cultures from online sources such as scan the world.  Hence the sculpture Helin embodies an organic data mirror emerging from collective historical heritage. A custom Deep Learning approach to train three dimensional shapes was developed at Studio Christian Mio Loclair and ranges across a diverse set of digital tools for advanced spatial reconstruction.  For Onassis Stegi, Studio Christian Mio Loclair created a version of the artwork Helin that is working with the open space and the avenue and sculptures of Pedion tou Areos. Its so-called "Avenue of Heroes" is lined with 21 marble busts of heroes, designed and sculpted individually by 16 prominent Greek artists, hence they each differ in their qualities and perspectives. Here, Helin deals with the subject of authorship, as well as with the subject of form and body and space and time. It is in direct dialogue with the sculptures in the park, whilst contrasting the peculiarities of the other works. In its digital identity, it blends into the real space and thus creates a sculpturally existing hybridity. More info: https://www.onassis.org/art/works/helin-pedion-tou-areos