The Oracle by Stanza

Innovation catalyst: Rosanna Di Nuzzo (on behalf of MEET Digital Culture Center - RSC Project "S+T+ARTS in the City")

The Oracle explores the future of cities governed by algorithms and acts like a portal. Continuously transforming, the artwork generates an oracular vision of the near future by analysing thousands of city-wide data inputs to make predictive outputs.The machine is re-mediating all the collected data, suggesting a data consciousness, thereby implying that the artwork is thinking, and trying to predict the future.

The Oracle is an expression of the all-seeing eye monitored by artificial intelligence, all at once. It acts as an autonomous brain seeking to make the hidden interactions between humans and non-human agents visible.