Future Tense 02 is an ever-growing collection of landscapes featuring seemingly ruined or dysfunctional solar panels, wind turbines, and other futuristic technologies, surrounded by offerings, lights, and prayer flags.
The many images are all generated by AI using simple prompts like the previous sentence. The sheer number of rapidly generated images – not without aesthetic qualities – makes it almost impossible to choose or to stop. Keep on swiping, left, right, up, down, more, more, more…
How do we imagine anything? Which (visual) languages do we employ to express our past, present and future? And how does this influence our ability to imagine a future?
Still very much a (fun) work in progress…
As part of the research group, Economy in Common, part of The Centre of Expertise Wellbeing Economy and New Entrepreneurship (CoE BWNO) at Avans, The Netherlands, Rune Peitersen looks at how societal narratives and ideas transform over time, and, in particular, how we as both individuals and communities deal with the demise of ideas that once defined our society and world.
Supported by The Centre of Expertise Wellbeing Economy and New Entrepreneurship, Economy in Common – CoE BWNO
