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Animation: The Latent Force of Living Forms
Ars Electronica: Hope, Linz, 2024 -
Installation: The New Times Atlas Of The World
Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul, 2023 -
Sound Design: Whole Earth Codec
Antikythera, Los Angeles / London, 2023 -
Sound Design: Not I
University Of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2023 -
Live Performance: Seven Manifolds
Multiple Locations, 2024-ongoing -
Hurt By The Sun, Linz, 2023 -
Soundtrack: The Beauty Of Becoming
Linz - Bogota, 2022 - 2023 -
Series: Latent Space Divination
Various Locations, 2021 - 2023 -
Speculative Technology: O-CHAIN
A.I.ECOSYSTEMS_ Hackathon, Ars Electronica, Linz, 2021 -
Raumschiff, Linz, 2020-2021 -
Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere., Antwerp, 2021 -
Installation: Remote Landscapes
Can Sisteré, Barcelona, 2021 -
Trust Collective, United States, 2020 -
Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2020 -
Ritual: Whale Moon
Vibraera, Barcelona, 2020 -
Album: Ybalferran - Our Last Days
Vaaknar, Berlin, 2020 -
Installation: Useless And Necessary
Mixtur, Barcelona, 2019 -
Album: Nine Mountains - Mountain I
Self-publishing, Barcelona, 2019 -
Installation: Balaenofon
Vibraera, Barcelona, 2019 -
Hackathon: Typhoon Dream / Sound Oasis
Urban Sound Symposium, Gent, 2019 -
Music: YOY
Poznań, Berlin, Barcelona, 2016-2021
Whole Earth Codec
A film by Connor Cook, Christina Lu and Dalena Tran at Antikythera
Techniques: Composition, Sound Design
The Whole Earth Codec is an autoregressive, multi-modal foundation model that allows the planet to observe itself. This proposal radically expands the scope of foundation models, moving beyond anthropocentric language data towards the wealth of ecological information immanent to the planet. Moving from raw sense data to high-dimensional embedding in latent space, the observatory folds in on itself, thus revealing a form of computational reason that transcends sense perception alone: a sight beyond sight. Guided by planetary-scale sensing rather than myopic anthropocentrism, the Whole Earth Codec opens up a future of ambivalent possibility through cross-modal meta-observation, perhaps generating a form of planetary sapience.