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Wenhui Jiang (Untitled_Egg) and Claire Breach (Rhubarcode)
Post Destination
This world we created is neither utopian or dystopian, serving as a liminal crack between the virtual and real. We named it Post-Destination, raising issues for the destination of Google and the destination of our society. What will the future look like? There is no answer now. What is the relationship between humans and Ai? „Unknown“.
The film you can watch in the world is in first person perspective, where the viewer is at the whim of the navigation app on their smartphone. For them to reach the “destination” their device instructs them to “get inside the post box”. Inside the post-box we enter a world that is a simulacrum of our reality, constructed in virtual space. It is inhabited by pantomimic creatures generated by AI prompts. Their intentions are unclear, are they friend or foe?
We imagined ourselves walking down this simulated street that was occupied by AI characters, in particular hamsters. What would they say? Could we understand them? Was that world actually separate to ours? Are they good or bad? These questions became irrelevant as like dreams, their value rested in their lack of quantifiable logic and straightforward answers. The hamsters themselves are agents of chaos and triviality. We also encounter replicas of ourselves in this environment, using devices in positions of prayer or perhaps stasis. The film drifts through different perspectives in order to show the range of our own interpretations, reemphasizing the great unknowability of these technologies. This film features the virtual world while the virtual world also contains the film to be viewed inside it.
Post-Destination seeks to establish a concern for the entanglement between humans and non-humans, the ethics of artificial intelligence. We find ourselves increasingly dependent on AI, and algorithms. Invisibly, we have become emotionally attached to them. We should find a healthy way to live with AI, even if the AI has its consciousness. It is easy to be afraid of AI, but we neglect to think, might they be afraid of us?
For the explorers of our world, they would need to keep their heads up or else they get truly lost looking down at their phone, led astray by the algorithm. “Heads up” also reminds us to remain alert, to be street smart. It reminds us to stay precautious whilst also serving as a reminder to remain open and optimistic towards what life presents us on our journey. These dichotomies are important to our work as we are not presenting a didactic worldview, rather a multitude creating a space for the audience to make up their own mind on questions of AI and technology, within the familiar ruin of the high street.
