Screenings
Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka: LUMI
John Hansard Gallery is delighted to present LUMI, a new video essay by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka.
LUMI explores snow, luminosity, and the reflections of planetary light. Explored through the lens of climate and science fiction, the film presents a compelling narrative, with sound design by María Andueza Olmedo.
Within the film, ‘artificial agents’ travel through time. They use photographic images from the past to recreate future programmed landscapes. Historical photographic material is examined from the perspective of an imaginary synthetic intelligence. This AI repaints the landscape as part of a climate restoration effort. At the centre of the operation is the ‘albedo effect’: a measure of reflection of light as it hits a surface. This enables the mapping and simulation of ice and snow covered landscapes that have disappeared over time.
LUMI serves as a visual database, capturing the dynamic interplay of snow, ice, and light. It tells a story about the reversal of time and the formation of landscapes: once made, then remade.
Within the film, ‘artificial agents’ travel through time. They use photographic images from the past to recreate future programmed landscapes. Historical photographic material is examined from the perspective of an imaginary synthetic intelligence. This AI repaints the landscape as part of a climate restoration effort. At the centre of the operation is the ‘albedo effect’: a measure of reflection of light as it hits a surface. This enables the mapping and simulation of ice and snow covered landscapes that have disappeared over time.
LUMI serves as a visual database, capturing the dynamic interplay of snow, ice, and light. It tells a story about the reversal of time and the formation of landscapes: once made, then remade.
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