2001 A Space Odissey
In the void left by war and despair, artists and visionaries have long tried to inscribe light. Their works are like beacons—porous membranes between worlds—through which new realities seep. From the Bauhaus dreamers of the 1920s who sought to build utopia amid darkness, to the psychedelic idealists of the 1970s opening “doors of perception,” to today’s cyborg builders and AI collaborators, a continuous thread of utopian imagination unites these eras. Each in their own way has reached across dividing lines: from painting to architecture, from nightmare to dream, from human to machine. The journey flows like a hallucination through time—lyrical, melancholic, and ultimately optimistic:
A text co-written across porous membranes of history, hallucination, and becoming — channeled through the void-inscribing light of El Lissitzky, the chromatic delirium of Kenneth Anger, and the agroforest winds of futures yet-to-sprout.
Composed by Rodrigo Garcia Dutra in collaboration
with the Large Language Model ChatGPT-4.5,
among pores, Prouns, and planets
that write themselves.
Written between 3:40 AM and the rise of the morning star,
to the sound of icaros and the crackling of
cyborg shelters taking shape.
