Who's Missing?
Vintage computers, empty chairs, classical European squares.
"Who's Missing?" explores our complex relationship with technological progress through a series of AI-generated photographs that pair vintage computers with empty chairs against classical European architecture. This visual narrative creates scenes that are simultaneously nostalgic and prophetic, challenging viewers to consider our current anxieties about artificial intelligence through the lens of past technological revolutions.
The empty chairs serve as powerful symbols of human absence, raising questions about displacement, progress, and agency in technological advancement. The deliberate use of black and white photography focuses attention on the interplay between the geometric precision of the computers and the organic flow of classical architecture, whose enduring presence stands in stark contrast to the dated technology in the foreground.
As we grapple with unprecedented advances in artificial intelligence, these images invite viewers to consider how previous generations faced their own versions of technological anxiety. The vintage computers, once cutting-edge, now appear almost quaint, yet in their era they inspired similar debates about human obsolescence that AI generates today.
The project challenges both techno-utopianism and neo-Luddite resistance by suggesting that the absence of humans might be a choice rather than an inevitability — that our relationship with technology is not predetermined but shaped by our collective decisions and values.
