Anna Kraher, Athena Grandis
Cancel the Apocalypse
"It is time to speak of [desirable] futures. It is time to cancel the apocalypse."
- Mushon Zer-Aviv
Prediction algorithms often use data from the past to predict the future. By using such predictions, we accept that political change is statistically unlikely, thereby limiting our ability to imagine new futures. The installation shows an interactive oracle that tries to overcome this limitation and predicts imaginary futures. The oracle is still based on predictive algorithms, thereby playing with the contradiction of depending on the very technology it argues to overcome.
Cancel the Apocalypse
"It is time to speak of [desirable] futures. It is time to cancel the apocalypse."
- Mushon Zer-Aviv
Prediction algorithms often use data from the past to predict the future. By using such predictions, we accept that political change is statistically unlikely, thereby limiting our ability to imagine new futures. The installation shows an interactive oracle that tries to overcome this limitation and predicts imaginary futures. The oracle is still based on predictive algorithms, thereby playing with the contradiction of depending on the very technology it argues to overcome.