Will we be able to assure the survival of our own species? Or we will need to trust that task to AI?
Will it be possible to train robots to take care of our embryos and bring them safely to some inhabitable planet where our civilization can develop again?
An intergalactic arc was built to guarantee the species survival.
A million years later, a Transhuman AI found an array of half buried nanny bots.
Gifted with solar panels, their heads move while the rising sun begins to energize their sensors and they start to move their heads with smooth movements to worship “that sun”.
Peaceful, protectors of a legacy that they must preserve and assist in a planet that is no longer their own, because their creators -former humans- never understood how to live in harmony and protect the Earth in order to preserve themselves as a species.
The current environmental problems and the lack of action by the main actors lead us to think of other possibilities when we can no longer inhabit our planet.
The work itself is a site-specific installation produced in the Sonoran Desert, California as part of ThoughtWorks Arts residency that took place at Mars College in Bombay Beach, California. It was exhibited and performed live during sunrises and sunsets.
These expeditionary robots are based on the previous work “Robotika” developed in 2019.