Inital Designs

I started by making a digital twin of a space with photogrammetry and situating it in the forest. While this portrays a symbiosis with nature, over the course of the term, the narrative grew darker.

Data Causing Damage

Marina Otero talks about how supercomputers in Donostia are causing a loquat tree to blossom early. Inspired by this, I imagined ways that the data in my forest was causing damage too

Liam Young

Some AI models can be heavily censored, but the environmental impact of technology is also censored from common discourse. Silicon Valley hides the fact that technological development necessitates the destruction of ecosystems.

Inital Tests

Initial tests with AI tools. More training data results in less inaccuracies, so I imagined these inaccuracies as nature. This process mirrors the real world, where higher levels of computation destroy the environment.

APENDIX

TECHNICAL

Explaining Tree Change

This level was beautiful, but I got the trees in an asset pack and wanted to make my own. I used Blender for the trees and Unreal for the grass

Reference

Eucalyptus trees that grow near the mine.

Explaining The Lag

Using the API data caused a lot of lag compared with earlier levels. It might have been more efficient to run the data in a separate Touch Designer thread. I aim to try this in future tasks