Generation:

All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively; but also—the production and propagation of something, someone, some idea.

A close- up of a graphically rendered teeth protruding a bronze mouth.

Spoils of a Lost Referent

Felipe Meres
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Despite the conclusion, the museum continues to exhibit the sculpture, claiming that it has acquired a modern cultural identity that transcends “issues of origin and genuineness” and stands as an “icon of the ever-changing perceptions and connoisseurship in the field of pre-Columbian studies.”

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
A 2D image of a black and white ghost holding a flower stands in front a toilet and a red leather sofa. A mirror reflects an image of a child in the middle of the room. Below the image is a caption explaining the context of the image.

Ghosts and Flowers

Phillip Birch
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I kept considering what happens when liminal space becomes static—how we are all stuck in this transition with the expectation of a return of normalcy, but in actuality there is no neutral, there is no normal. Normal is a veneer in which a few have the privilege of living under.

  • Cosmology
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization
AI-generated textile, cotton, training: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite images, 2020

ABOVE BELOW

Sarah Rosalena Balbuena-Brady
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Colonialism is rooted in the planetary imagination which fails to account for histories of structural racism based on geologic relations and the violent dispossession of indigenous lands. This resulted in legacies of destructive cartography and mapping now used in machine vision in space.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization