2022 – Interactive floral cloud, deepfake

produced by Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains

(L x W x H): 2.50 m x 6 m x 7 m, 1000 plastic gypsophile flowers, synthetic grass, 3D animation, deepfake, real time calculation

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The ways of mourning are unique and personal to each person. Funeral rites are also very different from one culture to another. The Digital Afterlifes Industries (DAI) offer other ways of looking at these stages, from the simple purchase of a grave online, to the chatbot and the proposal to recreate a post-mortem double with who you can continue interacting.
What will our augmented statues of us will say to our descendants?