Digital Atrium. Ground Floor
An AI model trained on 24,000 scientific illustrations of organisms related to the planet Mars, both from space exploration (such as fungi and algae) and popular culture. The result is a kind of speculative imagination about the confusion of species and the fascination with other non-human universes.
Admire the illustrations of nineteenth-century naturalists, resort to the enlarged photograph of a mite, suspect the fear that tentacular creatures provoke in us and all the phobias that we accumulate in relation to reptiles. Become interested again in the revelations of the plant kingdom, with disconcerting morphologies, rhizomes and mutations. The kingdom that precedes us by several millennia and in whose treasures we encrypt our future as earthlings, but also our possible or impossible life on Mars. Depending on how you think, from where and with what parameters, everything can seem alien, that is, provided with an ontological and epistemological legitimacy that puts our unredeemed anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism in serious difficulties. Let us also imagine that this prodigious diversity is processed by an artificial intelligence over which we do not have full control.
Work produced by the CCCB and Estampa within the framework of the exhibition Mars. The Red Mirror curated by Juan Insúa.
An AI model trained on 24,000 scientific illustrations of organisms related to the planet Mars, both from space exploration (such as fungi and algae) and popular culture. The result is a kind of speculative imagination about the confusion of species and the fascination with other non-human universes.
Admire the illustrations of nineteenth-century naturalists, resort to the enlarged photograph of a mite, suspect the fear that tentacular creatures provoke in us and all the phobias that we accumulate in relation to reptiles. Become interested again in the revelations of the plant kingdom, with disconcerting morphologies, rhizomes and mutations. The kingdom that precedes us by several millennia and in whose treasures we encrypt our future as earthlings, but also our possible or impossible life on Mars. Depending on how you think, from where and with what parameters, everything can seem alien, that is, provided with an ontological and epistemological legitimacy that puts our unredeemed anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism in serious difficulties. Let us also imagine that this prodigious diversity is processed by an artificial intelligence over which we do not have full control.
Work produced by the CCCB and Estampa within the framework of the exhibition Mars. The Red Mirror curated by Juan Insúa.
