MONUMENTAL merges Extended Reality (XR) with AI-generated imagery to create a new photographic medium, and questions how this technology could shape culture and the natural world. As XR becomes mainstream, digital overlays will become integral to our daily snapshots. With additional AI integration, our senses will increasingly be driven by machines. As these machines learn to alter what we see, what could they make us think, feel or do?
I bring this vision to life by integrating AI and XR technologies. Discussing the concept of monuments with AI, I generate newly imagined structures. I manually place the Monuments into real-world landscapes using XR, then capture the results through still and moving images. You can see the process here: https://nexerus.com/about
For millennia, cultures have built monumental structures to represent themselves. These structures inspire profound, personal experiences that transcend mere aesthetics. Monuments have power. Events in our fiction are synthetic, but the emotional response is real. Resulting belief and behaviour change… the rippling cultural effects are real. AI taps into this powerful phenomenon, crafting Monuments from code instead of metal and stone.
Moving versions of the images are here: https://nexerus.com/monumental
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