Florentin Aisslinger

“AIR Live” is an AI-generated news forecast showcasing a simulated world in 2050. By using AI as a tool to synthesise hyper-realistic but fictive scenarios both on a narrative and image level, the work explores the manipulatory and political dimensions of AI within a news forecast format.

The outcome is a “present future” set in 2050, projected out of historic data and shown through an assemblage of narratives, images, and weather diagrams that are presented to us by a generated news avatar.

“AIR Live” is a form of cultural and political manipulation that produces an embodied experience of simulation using open-source AI tools. A dimension of a “synthetic universality” that deliberately, or not, takes leave of ground truth.

In 1966, Stewart Brand described an Outlaw Area as “a geographical place where anything goes”.

Earth and humanity will increasingly face destruction in the next few decades. Destruction that is caused by both the withdrawal and arrival of certain environmental conditions. During times of collapse, it is worth questioning the legitimacy of legal clauses tailored to what we understand as stable circumstances.

In search of (past and present) states of exception, Outlaw Zones is a series of cautionary tales that discusses legal gaps and open ends within territorial negotiations that have taken place in human history. The series explores the role of legislation in the management and framing of land and resources during times of collapse.

Without specifically advocating for the transferability of individual observations, Outlaw Zones suggests that in states of exception, there lies a potential for radical territorial reimagining.

Technocultural people have the duty to study and cultivate both innate and elaborate forms of care, risking and welcoming direct encounters with unexpected matters and collaborators in the future. One can re-practice both care and caretaking on a very intimate level via daily waste rituals, to be evolved toward an overarching technocultural care.

In this evolution of care, technology is not a solution nor a threat but is there to help enable living with waste matter.

By entering your carefully sorted plastic waste into the Living-with-Matter-Converter-1 located in a public space, an injection moulding device morphs and transforms your personal waste instantly into a Living-with-Matter-Brick.