"I’m so close to the lake and the creek, maybe twenty yards, and I’m thinking about paddling back out there on the trail, my heart beating like a big drum, and I’d be lying if I said it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen. It’d be an adventure, everything – the mountains, the creek, the trees, the animals – all gone."

All Gone is an experiment in collaborating with AI to shed light on climate imaginaries. In the project, AI functions as our co-author, who has (machine) learned about climate imaginaries on the basis of training sets of climate fiction literature, indigenous climate change stories, climate-themed visual arts, and Hollywood ‘climate disaster’ film trailers.

All Gone was made by the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. This project is part of the larger program Climate Futures: Machine learning from cli-fi, in which we collaborate with algorithms to create new imaginaries for life with a changing climate. Climate Futures is kindly supported by CoECI Amsterdam.

https://www.visualmethodologies.org/