Michaela Putz

As a result of working with digital image archives of extinct plants, Phantom of a Garden imagines a future in which lost things are brought back to life in a digital realm. Based on a found-footage image archive of extinct and endangered plant species, the digital images and image fragments were subjected to a transformative process with the help of algorithmic reconstruction that interpreted the images as 3D models. Having to rely solely on collected images devoid of perspective and detail, the rendered plants are glitchy and reminiscent of ghostly apparitions or phantom echoes of their former selves.

In collaboration with Multinode studio and with the kind support of Land Burgenland.