It is bright red, flashes, scrolls numbers in all directions.
At first glance, it is difficult to understand the meaning of this work.
The loudspeakers placed on either side of the room in which it is exhibited broadcasting climate-sceptical speeches and counter-arguments set the stage.
In fact, the artist-researcher Gaëtan Robillard, teacher at the Imac-Esiee engineering school of Gustave-Eiffel University, located on the Marne-la-Vallée campus, wants with this exhibition, entitled “Critical Climate Machine », shed light on the mechanisms of disinformation on climate change.
Partnership with IRCAM
The sculpture broadcasts in real time messages collected on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“The redder it is, the hotter it gets and the more fake news there is
,” summarizes its author.
Because each number represents a type of message.
“
I appropriated artificial intelligence to help understand this impressive flow of online climate data…
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