Phantom of a Garden
2024
Video work
06:48 min
In collaboration with Multinode studio.
As a result of working with digital image archives of extinct plants over the past two years, 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 an AI (Meshy AI) that interpreted the images as 3D models.
Having to rely sololy 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.
3D models were created using Meshy AI. With the kind support of Land Burgenland.