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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 -
Soundtrack: The Beauty Of Becoming
Linz - Bogota, 2022 - 2023 -
Installation: Remote Landscapes
Can Sisteré, Barcelona, 2021 -
Installation: Useless And Necessary
Mixtur, Barcelona, 2019
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.