The Graceful Site
优美地高于生活
custom software, live simulation, Mac mini, 2024
by Ruiqi Zhang, Weitong Sun
Sound Artist: Stephen Vitiello
A minimal theater within a game engine foretells the failed future of automation and sketches an alternative trajectory for artificial intelligence. Set in an abandoned Bitcoin mining facility: a post-human worksite where technological remnants endure, the environment reconfigures into a new ecology. Three characters perform in an improvisational structure. Spirit-channeling ravens argue fervently over decentralized economies, the vanishing of labor, and the endless acceleration of capitalism—a low-hovering drone loops in perpetual surveillance. Nearby, a cluster of mining machines gathers and evolves into sentient entities.
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优美地高于生活
custom software, live simulation, Mac mini, 2024
by Ruiqi Zhang, Weitong Sun
Sound Artist: Stephen Vitiello
A minimal theater within a game engine foretells the failed future of automation and sketches an alternative trajectory for artificial intelligence. Set in an abandoned Bitcoin mining facility: a post-human worksite where technological remnants endure, the environment reconfigures into a new ecology. Three characters perform in an improvisational structure. Spirit-channeling ravens argue fervently over decentralized economies, the vanishing of labor, and the endless acceleration of capitalism—a low-hovering drone loops in perpetual surveillance. Nearby, a cluster of mining machines gathers and evolves into sentient entities.
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