A stone I took from the earth.

A stone I took from the earth, explores fictional and simulated places, through artificial consciousness. what happens to the virtual traces that remain beyond us? To explore this, I use an AI text generator (that ducts from a sentence the subsequent text from that input), to script a conversation between two monoliths and a formless voice; my abstraction of what would remain on earth. The text generator uses input form chatrooms and comment sections replicating human-like virtual interventions. In this way reproducing the modes in which we live virtually, abstracting ordinary interactions that occur within it. In the performance the monoliths are displayed to replicate a stone circle in the centre of the installation space, all the objects are covered in fabric indicating that they are no longer in use (packed-up). I use the stone circle to comment on past mythologies and their current transformations into different forms of alternative folklore, in a way I borrow from tales and legends to depict a new mysticism one which include technology as the central character. The ground covered in artificial grass, the warm lighting and the natural sounds playing, reference a synthetic yet pastoral image.