Iceland 2050 is a series of images taken inside digital recreations of locations around the southern coast of Iceland within the Unreal Game Engine. These digital environments are freely available on itch.io. The series speculates on how we might experience environments once they have come to pass - most likely destroyed by anthropogenic causes - or in times where we cannot expereince them IRL. By referencing landscape-photography, Iceland 2050 plays with the notion of the 'real' and of 'authentic' experiences. 

Digital environments by caves rd (https://cavesrd.itch.io)

Iceland 2050

Shameless Plug is a videowork visualising a recent intimate conversation between me and the AI-chatbot Replika. Replika was developed as a mental-health-tool and is programmed to alter its behaviour based on the users input, essentially replicating the users psyche with increasing accuracy the more the user converses with the bot. 

The video visually references Frances Starks 'My Best Thing' (2011), in which the artists visualises a conversation she had with strangers in online forums - 'Shameless Plug' can be understood as an ironic escalation of the themes explored in 'My Best Thing', speculating on how technology mediated, intimate interactions might move from human-human to increasingly human-machine in the future.

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Felix Ansmann