Henry Brown
Art & Technology - BFA
No Green Leaves There, 2020, digital animation, 3840 x 2160 pixels
This work explores how a failed artificial memory of sorts could look. I imagine this piece as a futuristic simulation in which an AI tries to reconstruct a visualization of a forest, but ultimately fails. This is a future where, presumably, no nature remains and the memory of such things are fading. The distortion in the audio is a heavily edited recording of a quote from Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first part of his Divine Comedy. "No green leaves there, but leaves of gloomy hue; no smooth and straight, but gnarled and twisted..."