A series of post-apocalyptic statues after the escalation of climate crisis and the environmental transition. Cats conquering the cities, penguins flooding beaches and ports, giant ants spreading everywhere. Statues made by the last humans alive in the year 2082. Images created through artificial intelligence image generators, real-life photography and photoshop editing. Inspired by climate crisis, humans’ ignorance, anthropocentrism and evolution –which is inevitable-. This work researches the uncanny environmental reality that is forthcoming as a result of climate crisis, and the sensitization of humans through photorealistic artificial intelligence generated images of a post-apocalyptic future. It also investigates the anthropomorphism of machines and technology and the emotional bond that formulates -in this case, between a female artist, her laptop, the internet and 2 AI algorithms- which give the artist an essence of collaboration with something alive.

BY  Vanessa Ferle (GR)


“An interdisciplinary female human, born by the sea, combining arts, design and science; through experimentations, correlations, and collisions.” Vanessa Ferle is an artist, graphic designer and neuroscientist. She has studied biology and neuroscience at School of Science of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and at Medical School of Athens, and digital arts and new media at Athens School of Fine Arts and University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. She is combining her interdisciplinary interests in art projects and artistic research. Her research focuses on the affective side of art in correlation to anthropomorphism. In specific, her focus is on the representation of animals per se and on the animal essence that automation, machines and smart technologies infuse into digital art, and the emotional response of humans to this “animal-effect”. She has present her works of VR, AR, digital images, experimental and animation film in various festivals.
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