Toward an Infrastructural Activism: Applied Critical Ecologies for a More-Than- Human World
SATA x TBA21 Academy x LACMA's Digital Leaders
New-Village – Unmake Lab
25’30” | 2025
In a paradoxical utopian allegory set in South Korea’s Delta, a smart city is under construction. A simulation village emerges, inhabited by the ‘Delta Family’, the first residents of a future yet to come. Meanwhile, the delta’s saline soil transforms the local salty sweet tomato, which mutates in response to the city’s shifting logic. A story about a fragile landscape strained and unsettled by technological visions of the future.
About the artist: Unmake Lab
Unmake Lab (South Korea) is a research-based collective exploring the social and ecological impact of AI and machine learning. Disrupting AI’s predictive nature through irony and allegory, their work examines the extractive nature of modern technology.