Lonely Machines

AR project in public space, Sürth, Cologne. Nine renderings and AR experiences
2021

This project brings back abandoned machines and rockets from space exploration. These machines are disconnected or died from lack of fuel after fulfilling their task in outer space. But what if they could come back?

The current unfeasibility of sending humans to Mars, automatically transfers the machines sent before us the quality of an “avatar”: they are technical representatives of a collectivity of humans and generate responses in the public opinion, that are entangled with affections. I am imagining the answers of the machines to these affections through an animistic perspective.

These objects are the translation of a speculation: variations of the different ways a machine might imagine the possible ruins of the future. These objects should not exist, they are a flaw in the system, because "space debris" should dissipate and disappear on its re-entry trajectory into the atmosphere. It is estimated that only about 100 objects fall to the Earth's surface in the course of a year, which is about the same number as meteorites.

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Lonely Machines