The digital tableaus were created as scenographic backgrounds for the reports of the deputies of the International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation, which were held as a conference on Zoom in September 2021. The tableaus aesthetically shaped the digital site of the event. As “tableaux vivants,” they reflect their agency as digital entities.

The music track was composed by Felix Römer based on submitted sound recordings from the committee’s deputies. As a composed soundscape, the collective is traced and forms the auditory architecture here.

Machine Fabulations: Digital Tableaux Vivants (#1-15), Christine Reeh-Peters in cooperation with Fee Altmann, Damian Domes, Felix Römer, Sarvenaz Zolfaghar © 2021

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Christine Reeh-Peters in cooperation with Fee Altmann, Damian Domes, Felix Römer, Sarvenaz Zolfaghar © 2021

Machine Fabulations: Digital Tableaux Vivants (#1-15)

Fifteen video tableaus offer a meditation on the speculative agency of digital media: Can they, understood as digital machines, perceive and interact with their surroundings? Do they fantasize about what lies beyond them?