LUMI (in collaboration with Jussi Parikka)

Lumi is a story of snow and luminance, of reflection and planetary light. The video essay arranges historical photographic datasets through the perspective of an imaginary synthetic intelligence trained for the repainting of landscapes as part of an operation of climate restoration.

Lumi can be seen as a science and climate fiction about a collective intelligence of Artificial Agents that time travel from past photographic images to future programmed landscapes. This intelligence has grown out of those moments of light computing its path, together with the landscape computing its growth and preservation.

Lumi is a dataset of snow, ice, and light. It is a film about the reversal of time and the synthesis of landscapes: once made, then remade.

Sound design: María Andueza Olmedo

Sound engineering: Emil Thomsen

Abelardo Gil-Fournier is an artist and researcher. Originally trained in Physics, he holds a PhD in Art from Winchester School of Art (UK) and has worked as a researcher at FAMU in Prague. He is currently a grantee of a Leonardo scholarship from the BBVA Foundation. His work has been exhibited and discussed internationally, including venues such as Transmediale (Berlin), Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (León), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), Design Museum (Shenzhen) and Tabakalera (Basque Country). He is the author, together with Jussi Parikka, of the book Living Surfaces. Images, Plants and Environments of Media (MIT Press 2024).

Jussi Parikka, Finnish cultural historian, is professor of Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University and visiting research professor at University of Southampton (UK). He has written and co-edited a number of books on media theory, history of digital culture, and environmental media. Some earlier work includes What is Media Archaeology? (2012) and Insect Media (2010). More recent work includes The Lab Book (with Lori Emerson and Darren Wershler, 2022), Operational Images (2023), and Living Surfaces: Images, Plants and Environments of Media (with Abelardo Gil-Fournier, 2024). He also works as curator, including such past projects as Weather Engines (2022) and Climate Engines (2023-204) with Daphne Dragona.