"One minute. Startled, I mean . . . What? A startled pause. Then a series of noisy syllables—choked, actually—choked like a chicken bone. Not like a chicken bone, though—a shorn bone. Not like one, though—Could almost see the first glint of a smile—a slight exaggeration, a tiny smile—cross the square as if she were going on a diet. Her eyes were too dull for that, maybe—eye actually, what a thing!—and she didn't have the teeth for anything stronger than a snort, a snorting, wheezing thumping sound. "

All Gone is an experiment in collaborating with AI to shed light on climate imaginaries. In the project, AI functions as our co-author, who has (machine) learned about climate imaginaries on the basis of training sets of climate fiction literature, indigenous climate change stories, climate-themed visual arts, and Hollywood ‘climate disaster’ film trailers.

All Gone was made by the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. This project is part of the larger program Climate Futures: Machine learning from cli-fi, in which we collaborate with algorithms to create new imaginaries for life with a changing climate. Climate Futures is kindly supported by CoECI Amsterdam.

https://www.visualmethodologies.org/