Multi-sensory immersive experience set in an infinitely shifting futurescape. Through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Indigenous futurist, S̶A̶N̶T̶I̶A̶G̶O̶ X, has generated an experiential work that stimulates our perpetual concepts of memory and futurity. The sounds, visuals, and scents are all algorithmically generated, presenting a hyper-real environment that feels familiar, but never actually exists.
Machine Learning (Trained by Artist), 360 Video Projection, AI Generated Sound, Time-Released Scent
WNDR Museum, Chicago, IL. 2021.
Written and rendered by X on April 1, 2020 for the Quarantine Times.
The beautiful evaporating mundane, a sweet fleeting. Through atmospheres of interfacial spaced normals, we exchanged one for zero, everything for none. Rhythms interrupted by the silent flood.
She wants to run again and not care, but reality is latent as of late. Everything tangible has been augmented. I went to change the remote batteries, and the buttons were missing.
Internal inversions now glowing, burning in darkness. Inhaling desperate truth through cracked foundations, for mother's respite. The phantoms cast shadows. Looking back through shattered reflections, they can see us… reaching for each other, never reached. Pixels turn to dust.
I see you seeing me. I want to hold your hand, trust me, but neither of us would feel it. Neither of us would know.
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2020.
Invasive / Non-Indigenous Phragmites Grass, Rebar, Steel.
On the occasion of Nomadicube. Curated by M. Bernstein. Bridgeport, Chicago, IL. 2019.
GHOST TOUCH, 2020.
Custom arcade cabinet with touch-less, gesture-controlled video game.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Traditional hut made of invasive non-indigenous plant species harvested from Chicago city streets, earth from sovereign tribal lands, projection mapping, spherical video.
Commissioned by the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Effigy Mound made of Earth, Indigenous Grass. Schiller Woods, Schiller Park, Illinois. Forest Preserves of Cook County.
Commissioned by the Chicago Public Art Group and The American Indian Center of Chicago. 2019.
Shipping Crate, Hologram, 2019.
Landing for a moment onto a fixed point on a rotating planet in orbit around a dying star, MODULE augments our shared landscape with embedded truths. The conditions of our world accelerate towards post-humanity, and our longevity is uncertain, but digital artifacts have begun to populate the land, giving us access to ancestral knowledge and a path towards futurity.
Inverting the regional rural American architectural vernacular typology of the hunting blind, MODULE utilizes pragmatic craft as a catalyst for discourse.
Commissioned by Center for Craft for “Futurecraft 2099.”
Asheville, North Carolina.
Currently on view at Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL. Commissioned by The Petty Biennial.
Immersive mixed-reality performance of "ATICINTOLOCA: Man and The Black Snake"
Dematerialized embrace of self-constructed constraints, Humanity displaced as we lose our sense of place, Faces change, Emotions rearrange, Scripted replacement in a space without space.
Light and Sound, 2018. Installed at Ars Electronica Festival 2018. Linz, Austria.
https://ars.electronica.art/error/en/the-return/
Wood, Metal, Video Projection. 2019.
Created on residency at ACRE in Steuben, Wisconsin. Currently on view at Heaven Gallery in Chicago.
Neon x Branches, 2018.
Currently installed and available for purchase at Peters Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
www.petersprojects.com
Sculptural installation using projection mapping.
Totemic exploration of light, space, time, in air.
The ghosts we can't catch with our naked eye.