SCOPE

SCOPE
Space Craft Oracle for Personal Enlightenment

Astrology, one of the earliest sciences, interpreted astronomical constellations to predict futures. Despite being deemed a pseudoscience, horoscopes remain popular. However, the sky has changed significantly in the last 60 years, now hosting over 3000 satellites, space probes and tens of thousands of debris particles. These man-made objects, like distant celestial bodies, impact human destinies, influencing our daily lives through (satellite) technology.

The artwork proposes a new divinatory science for the upcoming technoscene, utilizing all historical satellite and space craft launches as the basis for personal birth charts. Connected to various databases, the system selects the launches around the respective birthday and feeds the associated mission metadata to an artificial intelligence generating the horoscope texts depending on the space craft’s characteristics, printed directly for the visitor to take home.
Merging objective data with subjective truths, this results in a unique work of hyper-speculative satellite astrology, born from human longing for meaning and our deeply rooted desire to imprint our existence onto the world around us. We have created a new sky. Now the sky recreates us.

Produced by funds of Le Pavillon Namur, Stiftung Kunstfond and others

HOROSCOPE OF ELON MUSK Founder of SpaceX & Co-Founder of OpenAI (whose Chat-GPT algorithm is used here)
Stardate: June 28, 1971
Born under the sign of the Spacecraft Cosmos 428, your personality navigates between the ties of artificial intelligence and humanity‘s quest for knowledge in outer space. Your star is in the realm of the government, civil in nature, marked by a strength of 3. This indicates a propensity for organization, leadership, order, and the ability to build bridges between diverse entities. Marked by Spaceship‘s influence on the universe, this area signifies an innate urge for discovery and growth (strength: 2). You are quick to adapt, flexible, and always willing to explore modern technologies and new frontiers. Your interest in human spaceflight, perhaps even cargo ships, underlines your ability to juggle different tasks and face challenges with a pioneering spirit. You bridge the gap between curiosity and reality. (excerpt)

(we did not put Mr. Musks Name or any other hints of his identity into the prompt, only the date of birth and data of satellites which were launched around June 28th of 1971)