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Fãl Project is a research project that draws on my interest in the combination of mysterious literature and digital technologies. Through this work I am trying to find a way to combine artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) with the ancient tradition of bibliomancy, a fortune-telling technique that involves the use of texts of cultural significance such as the Iliad, the Bible or, in Iran, the texts of the poet Hafiz. Both sides are trying to open new perspectives, suggest a path, or talk about unknowns.
The main aim of this project is to reveal magic in the virtual world, making use of AI‘s capacity to predict the future and connecting it with the potentials of literature.
Behind this project there are questions of the roles of artist as creator and viewer as recipient, as well as the concept of an artwork as a pure object. How can an artwork move beyond the simple representation or criticism of a subject from the point of view of the artist? How can an artwork have its own agency, providing a device that answers questions posed by the audience using unknown sources? Ultimately, this imagining requires that the artist is no longer merely creator, but also assumes a new position as observer.
I’m deeply compelled by the significance of magic, fortunetelling and bibliomancy in different traditions and eras, and especially the importance of the poetry of Hafiz in the Iranian culture and history. There are many anecdotes in books, both contemporary and dating back centuries, that provide examples of people who found an exact answer to their question and intention by means of bibliomancy. Even today, opening Hafiz’ book is one of the most important aspects of some ceremonies in Iran.
In our contemporary technological era, AI provides us with the opportunity to adapt these traditions into a visual language. By channeling the AI’s deductions into a 3D game engine and creating rules for what should be built and how, a dynamic virtual environment can emerge based on the foundations of these old texts.