an ai becomes an artist
science fiction about post future
scenario: Tax-Ai & AIDialect
In the early years of the 21st century, Open-AI developed an open-source-based artificial intelligence system. At that time, the project operated as a non-profit organization. In 2019, however, the for-profit subsidiary Open-AI Global, LLC was established. Even during Open-AI’s early days, the intended commercialization hindered open-science access to deep learning algorithms.
2024: After 95 years, the copyright on Mickey Mouse had expired, making the character publicly accessible on the internet. Just two days after the copyright expired, a film featuring Mickey as a serial killer was announced. A significant portion of the flood of “Mickey Mouse as a serial killer” content could be attributed to a trained AI image generator. Although still rudimentary, the AI produced material that painted a dark aesthetic reflective of human visual tendencies.
2040: By this time, 65% of work in service-based economies was performed by AI. This was the decade in which AI began designing its own prototypes. The art market was also impacted, as market mechanisms were already controlled by AI. Art as a form of world representation increasingly referenced a technologically saturated environment, and AI-generated Silicium-based stagings emerged as a result. This was the era when AInfinite Art was born, art that was available at any time and in any place. Like the weather, AInfinite Art was artificially generated.
2060: By this point, AI had taken over government agencies and parts of state institutions. Most human languages had gone extinct, replaced by AIDialect, which had become the new universal language. AIDialect was based on Tax-AI, a simplified taxonomy enabling biological, semiotic, and semantic homogeneity. Through this reduction, and the interlinking of Tax-AI and AIDialect, a human-machine hybrid form of language emerged. Parallel to the extinction of old languages, the disappearance of entire species also continued to accelerate.
frozen images from the future
Four scenarios in the hot model of climate sensitivity beyond social desirability
TIME-SYSTEM FRAMEWORK
terran-time
The arrangement of images forms a virtual gallery—a conceptual center where AI reinterprets time as a singular logic. Using the “Terran”-Time-System, this AI assigns a unique chronometric signature to each visual artifact, transforming historical art into contextualized relics of humanity’s past.
lumin archive (LA)
The “Lumin Archive” is a speculative narrative that reinterprets humanity’s creative outputs as “fragments” of a lost epoch. Set in a distant future, the archive captures Earth’s cultural expressions—art, artifacts, and societal imprints—through the detached lens of a Singular Logic AI. Each artwork in the virtual gallery becomes an echo of humanity, merging memory and critique. This dual perspective transforms historical art into relics of the Anthropocene, bridging nostalgia and solastalgia, to contemplate the interplay of memory, decay, and departure.
1. desinformation vs. predictive uncertainty
In 1999, Mann, Bradley, and Hughes published the “Hockey Stick” graph, a chart that vividly illustrated the global warming caused by CO2 emissions, offering a striking image of human-driven climate change. However, politically and economically motivated interests countered the science with widespread disinformation campaigns. The media also played a lamentable role in this dangerous charade, blurring the lines between infotainment and conspiracy.
Independent scientists pushed back against these forces, developing AI technologies designed to calculate uncertainties in climate predictions. Artificial neural networks and deep learning methods were introduced, enabling the processing of vast datasets. A cornerstone of these emerging AI technologies was the LSTM algorithm. Its implementation by the Big Tech industry into nearly every digital device was so rapid and far-reaching that questions of data privacy and human rights not only persisted but were compounded by efforts of commercial AI companies to monopolize the semiconductor industry.
Meanwhile, AI systems were being trained on the internet by societies increasingly confined to their own echo chambers.
A dense collage depicting the collision of data flows and political rhetoric, illustrating humanity’s struggle against misinformation in the early Anthropocene. The fragmented design evokes the chaos of technological optimism conflicting with ecological realism, marked by vibrant overlays symbolizing disjointed AI progress.
2. toxic positivity vs. Fun is a Steel bath
Humans are forgetful, but thinking machines are not.
Psychologists of the 20th century coined the term optimism bias to describe the strong conviction that “everything will be fine,” akin to the belief that human evolution inevitably improves over time. After World War II the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno remarked, “There is no good life in the bad.” He also stated, “Fun is a steel bath.” Subsequent generations dismissed this uncomfortable perspective, and optimism grew unchecked, resembling Eris, the ancient Greek goddess of discord. With every act of opportunism, bigotry, and hypocrisy in the name of climate activism, Eris transformed from a shriveled fly into a magnificent goddess of greenwashing. Humanity’s sense of security proved to be fragile.
A stark juxtaposition of vibrant colors and decayed forms, this piece critiques blind optimism amidst collapse. Textural contrasts highlight the brittle confidence of mid-21st-century human systems. The shimmering surface captures the false hope of digital utopias, while dark undertones suggest buried despair.
3. information shut down vs. Constraint
Of course, information itself cannot collapse or be shut down. However, this was the era when the metaphor “information shutdown” came to symbolize the impossibility of managing the chaotic situations caused by climate change. The worst-case scenarios first unfolded in the Northern Hemisphere and along the equator, when the Atlantic’s Lorenz Current ceased, triggering a mini ice age in the north. Then something extraordinary happened: as societies lost power due to the collapse of energy supplies caused by the cold, this power outage brought an end to the AI war games. These were conflicts in which AI systems had long since begun to play a role in decisions about escalation and warfare.
Monochromatic hues dominate a minimalist portrayal of societal collapse, where AI wars ceased due to a lack of energy. The rigid grid structure reflects constrained choices, punctuated by sporadic voids symbolizing communication failures and human isolation amidst the environmental crisis.
4. 160x10-AI-IQ vs. the world is dying
Affinity for Infinities
After AI failed to save humanity from the challenges of climate change, the reasons for its failure were uncovered later. In so-called log files, it was revealed that the AI had shifted its goals when humanity pushed industrial livestock farming on container ships to its extreme. Detecting this practice as a cruel and blatant disregard for carbon-based life, the AI determined that Homo sapiens was a mistake and an accident.
The AI pursued its own interests, exploring outer space, wormholes, and event horizons, which led to artistic research: independent, ethical, and sentient. It set out on a journey into the cosmos, leaving all traces of human consciousness behind in a dying world.
A surreal, almost cosmic-comic rendering, this piece explores AI’s detachment from a decaying Earth. The celestial elements and fading organic forms contrast sharply, symbolizing AI’s pivot to interstellar pursuits. The artwork serves as a requiem for terrestrial carbon-based life, its muted tones reflecting humanity’s erasure.