Postcards From The Future (PFTF, 2021) is about watching an AI slowly forget and a walking/running figure being erased. The result is a poetic and spooky experiment with Machine Learning.

Context: What if AI’s, modelled by, and after, human behaviour, become a mirror image of us? This is the premise of “2001, A Space Odyssey”, and the movie comes to the conclusion that, if HAL has feelings, it is definitely the Will to power. Maybe man and machine are not so different after all?

Questions: Is digital ageing -or HALzheimer as the artist calls it- a possible antidote and solution to counteract the Will to power? The artwork expresses fragility and explores the ephemeral qualities of memory, examined in relationship to the subjects of power and control, as in Hegelian master-slave dialectics.

The Art of Walking: Art historical references are “The Walking Man I” by Alberto Giacometti, and "The Walking Man" by Auguste Rodin, works by Francis Alÿs, Hamish Fulton, Richard Long, Marina Abramović and Ulay. These are just one of many of such masterpieces.

Technical: The video is made by applying custom weight degradation algorithms on a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), until the image dissolves into a digital  monochromatic plane or pixel.

Note: PFTF is part of the HALzheimer series (e.g. Oh Deer!).