The Graceful Site
custom software, live simulation, Mac mini, 2024
by Ruiqi Zhang, Weitong Sun
Sound Artist: Stephen Vitiello
A minimal narrative unit: a surreal story foretells a failed future of automation and artificial intelligence. Set in an abandoned Bitcoin mining factory, the tale unfolds as a group of mining machines evolve into sentient beings and communicate with oracular ravens—traces of the workers who once inhabited the space flicker in the corners. The independent machine creatures exhibit intelligence as they learn to walk, reflect on dignity, and connect with Bitcoin mining data APIs in real time. This absurd path to spirituality is inspired by Karl Sims’ Evolving Virtual Creatures (1994), which explored early AI training as a meta-narrative.
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custom software, live simulation, Mac mini, 2024
by Ruiqi Zhang, Weitong Sun
Sound Artist: Stephen Vitiello
A minimal narrative unit: a surreal story foretells a failed future of automation and artificial intelligence. Set in an abandoned Bitcoin mining factory, the tale unfolds as a group of mining machines evolve into sentient beings and communicate with oracular ravens—traces of the workers who once inhabited the space flicker in the corners. The independent machine creatures exhibit intelligence as they learn to walk, reflect on dignity, and connect with Bitcoin mining data APIs in real time. This absurd path to spirituality is inspired by Karl Sims’ Evolving Virtual Creatures (1994), which explored early AI training as a meta-narrative.
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