Focus: Seeding Image
New project
Phantasmagoria was the first illusion to use a screen as its medium. A magical stage show – also known as a haunted house experience from the 17th century. Often, this took place in abandoned buildings with smoke and magic lanterns. Through a screen (the source of the illusion), the use of light and shadows would create a sequence of dream-like images. It simulated an encounter with a ghost or soul. The main goal was entertainment by scaring people by calling phantoms.
These illusions were designed as an antidote to cruelty and supernatural events, intended to reveal the mechanisms behind these experiences to the viewer.
Possible directions
"The imaginary machine constantly creates, by allowing it to use space for the traces, desires, reverberation, and resonances of a much larger history of imagination."
- Erik Davis on a Brief History of lmaginal Machines
Possible form
Linked to the main screen
Seeding Magic Lanterns
The First Female Travelling Lanternist in Paris
When magic lanterns became more compact they were used for street entertainment. This is me in the future!
Technical Drawing
1) Drawing of the magic lantern
2) One of the first technical drawings by Ismaël Al Jazari (1206). This clock showcases the fusion of cultures within the Islamic empire.
3) Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler. This diagram reveals the networks that expose the birth, life, and death of a smart Amazon Echo speaker.
What would a technical drawing of a new age magic lantern look like that displays the cultural social religious context of generative AI?
New project | Happy Incidents
Seeding alternatives bodies of (existing) sculptures that have shaped how we look at bodies through a digital lens, incoorporate endless variations by visitor input and generative AI
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