This Augmented Reality experience brings back abandoned machines and rockets from space exploration. These machines are disconnected or die of fuel lack after fullfilling their task in outer space. But what if they could come back?
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The current unfeasibility of sending humans to Mars, automatically transfers the machines sent before us the quality of an “avatar”: they are technical representatives of a collectivity of humans and generate responses in the public opinion, that are entangled with affections. I am imagining the answers of the machines to these affections through an animistic perspective.
Why is the shutdown of a martian rover a twitter fuzz? The “death” of a martian rover is able to generate a big disturbance in social media. Maybe they are objects in which we can project our hopes, or expectations. This is heavy, since these expectations have been also influenced by decades of literature und sci-fi culture. They are a surface of projection although they lack agency and freedom.
Lonely Machines is a speculative realtime renderization of neglected technoscientific agencies in outer space. The robots featured are not coming back to Earth. In this renderings their parts, that have gone through a transformative death are use to compose images about the leftovers of progress.