Anthropocene by Sheldrick

David Sheldrick, a London-based AI artist, is releasing a series of generative videos today titled Anthropocene.

The geological name refers to the human era on Earth, and the videos play into this, showing 30-second-long artificial timelapses of rapidly changing environments representing the (mostly negative) changes to the planet due to humans.

The speed at which these move is disorienting, but that’s the point, the message is not necessarily pleasant (though it’s all a bit ironic given the alarming amount of energy used to create these).

Sheldrick was the standout in Fellowship’s last PPP show, and this series is the second drop for the In Spirit exhibition by Verse and Tender, which just saw Emi Kusano sell out last month, so I reckon collectors will be watching.