Post-Tomorrowland’s Morning Post
Michael Aschauer
| When Walt Disney opened the themed land Tomorrowland in 1955, he promised "a bright future". In 1956, Roger Revelle and Hans Suess warned humans were conducting an unprecedented "large-scale geophysical experiment". Today, Disney's vision has given way to a Mad Max's Tomorrow-Morrow Land. This work of net art transforms climate projections into speculative scenarios in newspaper format. A hyper-local, automated, post-fictional news portal from the future, crafted using language models informed by climate data. The project explores potential futures through science and machine intelligence rather than science fiction. It’s the viewer who decides: are these genuine possibilities or merely statistical averages of humanity's imagination processed through probability models? |
Bio
| Michael Aschauer is an artiste-auteur numerique and creative full-stack engineer. He manipulates bytes, pixels, code, and data, seamlessly navigating various media and disciplines. His work captures the essence of both the human experience and the human condition in the Anthropocene, highlighting the interplay between life and machinery, nature, technology, and society. His creations have been showcased globally in numerous exhibitions and major festivals. He currently resides in Southern France. |