VIGIL

A sculpture featuring 9 small video screens sitting in what looks like a church candle Vigil. Each screen shows a revolving set of icons created by AI for humanity based on religious texts, day to day objects and forms of communication and technology. Is this a vigil for the end of humanity? Is this a teaching tool created by AI to help us understand ourselves? Is this a documentation of human society up until now? The work is intentionally a bit vague and alien presented as icons created somewhere between Paleolithic cave paintings and animated gifs. This work is algorithmically controlled by a computer system which decides which symbol to hi-light.