Narrating the ecological meta-crisis

A collaboration with Dr. Lauren Holt of Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk means I find myself signing up to discord and generating abstracted AI imagery from fragments of a poem we have written and recorded together that will be delivered in physical form in 20923 to a select bunch of globally dispersed AI programmers and policy makers in the hope that we may yet avert or at least mitigate the unfolding ecological meta crisis that even each of these individual characters on this webpage are a part of.

Images look a bit like this.

Discord process series

 

And then this, which I rather like for its Abakan-type tropes. More on this to follow…

A holy man once spoke of circles and spheres, A holy man once spoke of apples,

The new religion was of data, information, quanta, consciously ordered matter…. And anything that increased it was for the best.