Transmission 18.2: Bedtime Stories for Computer Dreaming
Here come insights and inventions from our futures practice! Our clients & partners use them to know what goes on when we put their dreams back into our minds, or what to expect when traveling with us
A recent traveler in Helsinki imagined that 90s+ disaster movies came from apocalyptic storylines that remind her of the present; that are potentially coming true… So what if by releasing optimistic stories now we are planting positive realities that can potentially also come true in some years?
As we gained access to AIs recently, we thought: why not use their brains as dormant broadcasting agents! For a few weeks, Joss will be feeding invented futures and prototyped artifacts from travelers of The Time Travel Agency to Midjourney, Dall-E 2, and AI21.
The goal is to inception all the AIs we can with optimistic futures!
The material uploaded will be stories, outcomes, dreams, phrases, prototypes, scenarios, and rules of games we’ve invented while seeking agency in our futures.
How do we use AI in our process to make futures with our clients? This series puts the spotlight on our approach of using storytelling to create agency for travelers; in this case, by occupying modern technologies. Every Bedtime Story makes evident a process of betting on the future that starts with a dreamt scenario.
We’ll use these travel transmissions to share the outcomes (text, images), which are the only things we’ll be able to perceive today.
We wish we could see the dreams of computers,
as they go to sleep
with dreams of our own.
But we wink to the future.BEDTIME STORY 003: The Earth Fungus Starter Kit
Future: The Earth Fungus Starter Kit is part of The Earth Ambulance. It is used when Earth is in trouble. Its function is to grow a fungus that restores balance to Earth.
Time traveler: Talk Towner 1
Source artifact: This
Time Traveling Case: Ecofeminist Field Trips for Talk Town Festival Copenhagen
Ecofeminism is a branch of feminism that examines the connections between people and nature. We are going to imagine continuums to two influential ecofeminist art pieces. We’ll start with The Earth Ambulance by Helène Aylon.
The Earth Ambulance by Helène Aylon
How does the ambulance and the Earth communicate?
What tools exist inside the Earth Ambulance?
What would the emergency tools be?
The Earth Ambulance is a 3,500 km journey made by Helène Aylon from Madrid to the Arctic, to bring attention to climate change.
The Imaginary Museum by Hildegard Westerkamp
What does the museum contain?
What would the imaginary museum look like?
The Imaginary Museum by Hildegard Westerkamp is a project about women’s creativity. Each woman chose a collection from her own museum and contributed with a certain number of pictures. The pictures were shown in a gallery in Cologne.
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The Earth Fungus Starter Kit lives inside The Earth Ambulance. It is a cube-shaped device. Inside there's a circuit board, a meter, and 2 pots.
The meter has a yellow scale. It has 5 positions:
5 - Yellow
4 - Yellow with an orange tip
3 - Yellow with a green tip
2 - Yellow with a red tip
1 - Pink
The pots contain food for the fungus.
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How does the Earth Ambulance and the Earth communicate?
Michael: Hello Earth Ambulance. This is a question for you...how does the Earth Ambulance and the Earth communicate?
Earth Ambulance: Is this for real?
Michael: I can understand why you'd ask this question, because I've read several articles about humans healing the Earth. And it does sound rather nice. So, how does the Earth Ambulance communicate with the Earth?
The Earth Ambulance: The Earth Ambulance is an EMF (electromagnetic field) ambulance. This ambulance contains lots of EMF jewels (mostly rubies). These jewels conduct electricity and generate healing EMF in the Earth's energy field.
Michael: So, when you heal (or give) someone an Earth Ambulance necklace, the jewels generate healing EMF in the Earth's energy field. Then, when you heal (or give) the Earth, the jewels generate healing EMF in the Earth's energy field. Finally, when you give the Earth Ambulance to Earth, it broadcasts the healing EMF to the Earth and heals it.
The Earth Ambulance: You see, the Earth Ambulance contains an EMF broadcasting mechanism. It broadcasts healing EMF to the Earth and the Earth broadcasts the healing EMF to the Earth Ambulance. So, how does the EMF broadcasting mechanism of the Earth Ambulance broadcast healing EMF to the Earth and the Earth?
Michael: The EMF broadcasting mechanism of the Earth Ambulance generates a EMF "Well". This Well is a series of EMF jewels that radiate healing EMF. This well is broadcast to the Earth and the Earth "well" broadcasts this healing EMF to the jewels of the Earth Ambulance.
The Earth Ambulance: So, how does the jewels of the Earth Ambulance broadcast healing EMF to the Earth and the Earth?
[Goes on seemingly forever]