Media Landscape is an infinite movie directed by humans and algorithms.

It is an automated system that reads, combines and interpolates aspects of our moment in history to create a slow moving panorama that illustrates current social, political and environmental conditions.

Once fully developed, Media Landscape will be composed of two subsystems, one that automatically and continuously scrapes content from news sites, and uses a language model to summarize and analyze this information. The results will then be used to create descriptive prompts for the second subsystem: an image diffusion models that will be used to illustrate the articles. Using inpainting models, previous images will become seeds for the next round of images, and the system will use updated content from news stories to keep filling in a continuous and infinite canvas in real time.

Thiago Hersan is an artist, researcher, and educator interested in the collaborative potential of all technologies. He holds a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has worked as a circuit designer, programmer, and design technologist in a variety of contexts and teams. Thiago is currently an Assistant Professor of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design, where he teaches programming, machine learning, and design. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of São Paulo's School of Architecture, Urbanism, and Design, where he develops tools for analyzing, questioning, and reorganizing public media archives. He has been a resident artist at Impakt in Utrecht, Delfina Foundation in London, and Autodesk in San Francisco, and has participated in exhibitions at MUDAC in Lausanne, Science Gallery in Dublin, and SESC in São Paulo.

Mari Nagem is a Brazilian-born transdisciplinary artist and creative manager, conceptually driven by the relationship between nature and technology. Navigating different media, and using luminous colors and sharpened edges, Nagem creates works that illuminate our perception of critical aspects of the information age, such as the artificiality of landscapes and the climate crisis, raising existential questions while bringing sensibility to our relationship with and through machines. She has been recognised with a Celia and Wally Gilbert Fellowship (US) and the Marcantonio Vilaça Award (BR), has been a resident artist at SFERIK Museion (MX) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US), and has participated in exhibitions including Mostra 3M (BR) and Bienal Sur (AR).