I’ve been developing A Field Guide to Orbital Melancholy for the past year, and I’m so excited to slowly start sharing this body of work with the world 🛰️
A few pieces from this project are currently on display at
@office_impart , part of “drifts”, a group exhibition with the amazing
@yehwan.yen.song and
@yoshisodeoka .
Field Guide is a project about earth observation systems as unreliable narrators, spirals, competing narratives, phantom islands, reenactment, Point Nemo and a lake that might or might not have disappeared.
The videos and images in this post are part of The Lake, a real-time simulation in which Argus, an AI driven constellation of satellites, is in a forever loop of trying (and failing) to accurately reconstruct the events that led to a questionable series of images it produced.
Making this simulation would have been impossible without a few amazing collaborators:
@laenzzz (sound design) — you always create soundscapes that go above and beyond what I could possibly imagine, always so deeply aligned with the worlds we’re building. Thank you 🫶
@ailiescu7 (3D environment design) — your craft, dedication, attention to detail and willingness to dive into the unknown have been so inspiring, I can’t picture this project without your contributions. Thank you 🫶
@sofiaenriquezg (curatorial development) — your writing, ideas, references, feedback and energy to engage with a messy pile of research have been so essential in helping this work come together. Thank you 🫶
And of course thank you to
@office_impart ,
@onkaos_ and
@studiotopia.art for the trust and support. More to come ✨