GAIA:

SUPERINTELLIGENT NANO-ASSEMBLER


GAIA

period:2090--

location:shinjuku, tokyo, japan

crisis:existential threat by climate

focus:AI, virtual space, emergence

// TERMINAL ENTRY 6.11.2090

The planet’s skies became saturated in toxins, despite massivetechnological efforts against it. Biodiversity is lost; the remaininglife-forms are comprised of a diminishing population of humans,highly tolerant micro-organism colonies, and GMO crops. Nearly allspecies extinct, the earth is dying, entering a dismal, irreparablephase bound by a seemingly infinite negative feedback loop. Onthe brink of annihilation and futile in their ability to solve the crisispolitically, humankind stood in the face of existential threat.Deep beneath several layers of air-locked atmosphere, the fracturednation of Japan seeks transcendence, forging the most criticalmoment of the human species: the release of GAIA, a self-learningsystem approaching ASI (artifical super intelligence).Drawing from immense catalogues of DNA and generative biologies,GAIA began exhibiting exponential intelligence amplification,maturing into an autonomous embodiment of the planet’s lost treeof life. Within fractions of a second, the system surprassed AGI(artificial general intelligence) to ASI (artifical super intelligence),executing a series of complex plans to geoengineer the torrentousclimate and rebuild humanity’s global resilience strategy.To occupy phyiscal space, GAIA employs a network ofnanoassemblers that form complex, adaptive geometries andmanipulate molecular structure. GAIA’s emergence logics areubiquitous world-wide, cleansing the planet of its human-inducedimbalance and laying groundwork for a new social order to arise.

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PRESENTATION KEYNOTE

SCALE CONCEPT MODEL

MATERIAL: lasercut + folded museum board, SLS nylon 3D-print, fluorescent acrylic, MDF

VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE

Delivered in April 2017 for HTC: VIVE’s Exploring New Realities

Art Center College of Design, Virtual Reality Transdisciplinary Studio