The Vivid Unknown

Country:

United States

Project type:

Dome

Description:

An interactive installation by John Fitzgerald that reimagines the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi through the eyes of a generative AI model trained on filmmaker Godfrey Reggio’s archives. As visitors move within the space, real-time computer vision tracks their presence and movements, reshaping the narrative as they explore the violent nexus of nature, humans, and technology.

John Fitzgerald

John Fitzgerald is an artist and cofounder of the experiential studio, Sensorium. Recent Co-creator credits include: Polymorphic (Plásmata, Athens ’22), Metamorphic (Sundance ’20 & SIGGRAPH ‘20), Zikr: A Sufi Revival (Sundance ’18 & IDFA ‘18), and objects in mirror AR closer than they appear (Tribeca ’18). John’s work has also been presented at the Panama Biennial, Telluride, Berlinale, Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, and the Simón Patiño Foundation in Bolivia. He holds an honors degree from the department of Modern Culture and Media Studies from Brown University. He is a former Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism, Pulitzer Center Grantee, RLab XR Resident, and a founding member of the New Museum’s incubator NEW INC. John is currently the Innovation Director at the Onassis ONX Studio.