Fried Eggs and Rockets, 2025
Fried Eggs and Rockets, 2025, 6:45 minutes, HD video, courtesy the artist
Working from a home office, a woman is programmed to either talk to an AI about eggs and rockets, or look out the window where she sees a deer dying in childbirth in a hot landscape. So, she talks to the AI. She says…
Fried Eggs and Rockets reflects on the futures we are programming into being and the fragile lives caught in that trajectory. Inspired by a SpaceX rocket launch, the dialogue is drawn from an extended conversation I recorded with ChatGPT. Using 3D modeling, CGI, and generative AI tools, I explore fragile ecologies, technological mythologies, and the uneasy relationship between care and destruction.
Fried Eggs and Rockets reflects on the futures we are programming into being and the fragile lives caught in that trajectory. Inspired by a SpaceX rocket launch, the dialogue is drawn from an extended conversation I recorded with ChatGPT. Using 3D modeling, CGI, and generative AI tools, I explore fragile ecologies, technological mythologies, and the uneasy relationship between care and destruction.