Models for Environmental Literacy
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Photogrammetry, Digital Storytelling, Eco-Science, Eco-Philosophy, Eco-Fiction
Models for Environmental Literacy, 2020. 4K Video, Computer Generated Text, duration: 36’40”.
Models for Environmental Literacy, 2020. Video still, Chapter 2.
Models for Environmental Literacy, 2020. Video still, Chapter 3.
Models for Environmental Literacy is a series of digital animations and A.I. generated narratives that creatively and critically explore the challenges of describing a landscape, an ecosystem, or the specter of environmental collapse through human language. The project further explores how language and vision are impacted by the mediating agency of new technologies. How do we see, feel, imagine, and talk about the environment in this post-digital era, when there are indeed non-human/machine agents similarly trained to perceive “natural” spaces? This project explores these questions, as well as emerging relationships with drone/computer vision and A.I.