Optimistic Prognosticator

VQGAN+CLIP images made from photos of world's fairs and universal expos, to remind us of a time when the future meant something different. When the images are stitched together they make an animation that can hypnotise the viewer into a state of naive optimism.

These NFTs have been conceived by ‘The Scenius Machine’ - an AI idea generator trained on great thinkers of the past, present and future. The word scenius was first coined by Brian Eno after acknowledging extreme creativity and innovation is often the product of a community rather than an individual. These generative ideas come from smashing together seemingly disparate concepts until they create novelty. Purchase of every NFT gives access to the community and a chance to contribute to future tuning of the Scenius Machine.

This run was trained on ideas from Buckminster Fuller, Octavia Butler, exhibits from past world's fairs and dreams from over 3000 people collected during 2021.