AI Fossil is made up of 3D models generated by artificial intelligence with news headlines as the prompt. In a scene resembling an abandoned factory, digital objects linger in space. Each object stands for a news item—a piece of mediated reality—that can be retrieved through the viewer’s interaction in a further generative interpretation of the reality that surrounds us. Units of reality are presented in realistic fragments: fossils, a pile of metal carvings, or low-quality plastic toys.
This hybrid environment of the “real” and the “generated” point toward a question that becomes increasingly important as generative AI models spread: Which models make worlds? Are these imaginaries critical enough?
Biography
Ziyang Wu is an artist based in New York and Hangzhou. He currently teaches at the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art, is visiting professor at School of Art and Design at Alfred University, and was formerly a member of NEW INC at the New Museum.
Mark Ramos is a Brooklyn-based new media artist. Mark is committed to the ethos of open source: the free sharing of information and data and creative uses of technology. He makes fragile postcolonial technology using web/software programming, physical computing (using computers to sense and react to the physical world), and digital sculpture/fabrication to create interactive works that facilitate encounters with our uncertain digital futures.