Sound Installation: ERDA SPEAKING HELLOHELLO

The discourse on the risks and side effects of artificial intelligence is currently being conducted between extreme alarmism in the criticism of digitalisation and glorification in unquestioned optimism about progress. As a continuation of the idea of the death of the author from the second half of the 20th century, however, the most exciting perspectives on this new tool emerge: AIs can be literary agents because they know what humanity has already written about and in what ways. By drawing on collective bodies of knowledge, these tools can always be asked questions in a particular direction: What would a Wagnerian-type future narrative look like without us? What would a future narrative look like without us, one in which we once again become part of creation and not engineers of life and fate? In an examination of the work of essayists, filmmakers and authors such as Elvia Wilk, Alex Garland, Darren Aronofsky, Jeff Vandermeer, Margaret Atwood and many others. a new Ring fable has emerged that does not completely abandon Wagner's inventions and characters, but uses each of them only as a foil for the narrative of a future of the more-than-human: a future in which the human being is perhaps so far removed from the central perspective that he or she (once again) becomes part of the landscape and the nature that surrounds him or her.