elegies for oil spills

elegies for oil spills

by anne lee steele & mirko febbo (2024)

can a machine mourn for the climate?

if a oil spill could speak, what would it say?

what can machine mimicry tell us about narratives of oil (and its spillage)?

using data about world’s largest oil spills, ‘elegies for oil spills’ generates speculative artifacts about environmental disaster – printed in the form of a (recycled) receipt.

every image and poem both here and on your receipt has been generated by AI (specifically, ChatGPT – one of the largest language models in the world).

‘elegies for oil spills’ is part of the series ‘poetic tactics to counter extraction (and other ways to train attention), hosted at the school of commons’ the Zurich University of the Arts and online.

this project is being launched at EASST-4s in Amsterdam, NL as a demo.

we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts, please get in touch:

Anne Lee Steele

[email protected] or @aleesteele

AND/OR

Mirko Febbo
[email protected] or @mirko.febbo

both for concept, discussion, feedback, thoughts!

thank you for engaging with us.