Glissmann
Appendix X, Single-channel video, 5:30 min
In dialogue with media archaeology and design futures, Atlas of Speculative Mineralogy reflects on how human infrastructures and material culture record the geological present. The video moves between field documentation and algorithmic speculation, tracing the transformation of matter into data and data back into image.
Drawing on the traditions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century naturalists, it reimagines the mineral specimen as both physical sample and digital prompt. Through sequences generated by machine-learning systems, the work opens a speculative archive where the boundaries between the natural and the artificial blur.
Looking back and ahead at once, it envisions a future in which archives themselves become living, evolving systems of perception.