ODD//FOES (Orbital Distant Debris Falling on Earth’s Surface): AR for IOS and Android, javascript, duration variable, color, sound by Marco Sulek
Series of AR sculptures that resemble old NASA satellites having crashed to the Earth's surface. These satellites have been transformed and returned unexpectedly to Earth.
The sculptures are nothing more than a hand-crafted translation of prompted-2D images generated by various types of artificial intelligence and 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.
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.
