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World Upstream: Field Diary #4

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𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘜𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮: 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘜𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭-𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. World Upstream is an inquiry into the aesthetics of leisure. Set in a fictional future which takes for granted the embodiment of artificial intelligence - and with it, the fulfilled techno-utopian promise of freedom through automation - World Upstream asks what remains once labor becomes obsolete. The setting is a strange picnic. A cast of characters - including a wise poplar tree, a group of quadruplets, or a Dyson vacuum, all equipped with artificial minds - become equal-parts shareholders in re-wilding an ageing piece of infrastructure: a hydroelectric dam on its path towards obsolescence. World Upstream exists as a live simulation constructed in a game engine, and it presents as a film which edits itself in real time. The storytelling techniques of traditional cinema are replaced by emergent behaviors, as the conjunction of camera movement, character action and environment design leads to the unfolding of proto-narratives: snippets of action and intentionality which live somewhere between the screen and the viewer’s imagination. The simulated nature of the work also means that the picnic never ends. As long as the GPU fans are spinning and the electricity is flowing, its characters are doomed to continue producing their performative labor of leisure. — World Upstream: Field Diary #4 1/1 MP4, 32 seconds, 1920 x 1080, 45MB Cezar Mocan, 2025 https://cezar.io

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