2026
Video, Generative AI, 3D printing PLA plastics, printed paper, Graffiti, industrial crate, cement, shopping cart.
dimension variable, 07m 44s
Anchored in the underground space of the former Stalin Monument in Prague’s Letná Park, this work feeds intricate historical archives and fluid local urban legends—ranging from pirate radio stations and Satanic rituals to the lost nose of Stalin—into an AI as data. Here, the AI functions as a contemporary "legend generator," echoing the folkloric understanding that the significance of a legend lies in its circulation rather than its veracity.
However, unlike human oral transmission, which tolerates ambiguity and voids, algorithmic logic is driven by "filling" and "smoothing." When the AI confronts this historical trauma—riddled with ruptures and inherently resistant to linguistic integration—its compulsive computational logic collides with the boundaries of the symbolic system. This collision manifests in the imagery as spatial distortions, "impossible geometries," and abrupt shifts to the intruder perspective of a First-Person Shooter (FPS). These "glitches" are neither mere computational errors nor successful representations of trauma; rather, they are manifestations of "aphasia" and "failure" exposed as the algorithm attempts to violently suture the black hole of history.
Through spill-over video projections, street wheatpasting, and scattered 3D-printed residues, the installation constructs a complex field where the digital, legends, rumors, and archives intertwine. This work is not merely a reproduction of ruins; it reveals how, in the algorithmic age, the vitality of folklore is being supplanted by a flattened, anesthetized loop. Within this ceaseless computational reconstruction, while we may never access historical truth, we witness the indigestible rejection reaction of contemporary technology as it attempts to devour history.
Image Courtesy of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Anpis Wang.
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