In 2050, when I was 20…

A sound work, a performance and a book

Delegated production: CieASAP

A survey of digital imaginaries among workers, students, researchers in IA

Description

In 2050, when I was 20…takes three artistic forms: a collaborative digital creation at the crossroads of sound work and poetry (a smartphone application), a performance and an edition

The project examines the imaginary world of the digital, in terms of its societal and intimate, political and poetic, scientific and imaginary dimensions. What did we think would happen in the year 2000? What do we expect in 2025? How will we look at 2025 in a few decades’ time? What do we hope for in 2050? What fears or desirable futures are recurring?

In the form of retro-fiction, En 2050, quand j’avais 20 ans… puts into perspective the history of these imaginaries and their future. A survey will be carried out with several types of audience: tech. entrepreneurs-engineers-employees, university students and researchers, annotators from the French Ministry of Justice and image labelers and annotators in Madagascar. This survey, in the form of meetings and workshops, will enable us to build up a textual and sound database that is both poetic and anthropological.

As an example, here are a few sentences I’ve written:

In the year 2000, when I was 20, I remembered as a child waiting for the arrival of flying cars, and then we had the Internet.
In the year 2000, when I was 20, we believed that the Internet would allow the truth to circulate freely.
In 2025, when I was 20, it was thought that Artificial Intelligence would reduce income inequalities rather than exacerbate them
In 2025, when I was 20, it was thought that the Internet would pass through satellites.
In 2050, when I was 20, we had forgotten that we could live without neurotechnologies.
In 2050, when I was 20, we still believed that a technology could be infallible.