Cybernetic Oracle
Cybernetic Oracle invites visitors to use cartomancy to gain insight into their past, present and future with a custom deck of 78 tarot cards and a book of tarot interpretations designed by the artist in collaboration with generative AI models. Visitors can interact with the artwork by shuffling the tarot deck and drawing three cards to represent their past, present and future. They can then look up the meaning of each card in the accompanying book. The tarot cards were designed by the artist in collaboration with a deep learning, text-to-image model and an LLM. The text for the book was created by querying the model prompted with the writings of cyberneticists, cyberfeminists, ecofeminists and technopagans. Cybernetic Oracle questions AI’s understanding and interpretation of reality, drawing parallels between divination and querying a model for information.