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 die of fuel lack after fullfilling 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.
The sculptures are a possibility imagined by machines. They are speculations based on a catalog of stereotypical images that respond to the imagination that results from a text prompt. They are possible collages of objects more typical of science fiction that convey a sense of possibility and three-dimensionality on the screen. The generated image of a wreck on a random meadow on the surface of the Earth offers no real depth information. If we look closely at the AI images, something is wrong; the blurred surfaces of the spacecraft remind us of textures we've seen a thousand times before. The horizon line is broken... they are ghost images