MoCIA: Mineral Room

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "Create an image set in the British Museum, where a diverse group of people is closely gathered together, each deeply focused on using their mobile phones to 3D scan various ethnographic objects. These individuals, representing a range of descents including Caucasian, Hispanic, Black, and South Asian, and of different genders, are intently scanning objects with a history of being looted from indigenous people during the era of Enlightenment and colonialism. They seem completely absorbed in their task, oblivious to the other museum visitors around them. The museum environment is rich with historical artifacts and exhibits, providing a striking contrast to the modern technology used by the visitors. The lighting captures the ambiance of a museum, with focused illumination on the artifacts, creating a spotlight effect, while the surrounding area remains dimly lit. The composition should highlight the juxtaposition between the deep cultural history embedded in the museum's artifacts and the contemporary scene of visitors engrossed in their digital devices. The image should be rendered in high photographic fidelity, emphasizing the sharp details of both the historical artifacts and the modern scanning activity --chaos 10 --ar 5:4 --style raw --stylize 0" 
The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds. The image depicts an AI-created person of apparent Asian descent transforming into a white woman of European descent with dark blond hair. This evidences the tendency in AI platforms to default to specific types of representation, including body type and race, which highlight the coded bias of the training data.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Animated Gif

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Generative adversarial network (GANs)

Curator's comments:

The artefact represents an early attempt to create a fictional fossil record using AI. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) were utilised as a visualisation process to create a series of images. Photographic-based data sets were entered into a computational neural network to generate new image amalgams within a specific field of reference. The training set was created by collecting data through incomplete and problematic acts of search—using hashtags, geotags, and keywords. Training data for the process of imaging a complete fossil record for extinct species of Ammonites included images of ammonite fossils from Lyme Regis, film stills from Francis Lee’s "Ammonite" (2020), Ammonite Field and Fish Knives, and Ammonite Brown Fives—bespoke men's chinos cut like jeans. The post-photographic is employed to extend engagement with images as research tools for emergent processes based on speculative computation in the context of the Museum.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of:  fictional fossil record, Ammonite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Deep Dream Generator

Acquisition date
2018

The Mineral Room of the MoCIA explores the relationship between mobile devices, the ways museums display material culture, and the extractive processes involved in the construction of imaging technology. The exhibition is set against a backdrop featuring a scan of a historic gallery at the Natural History Museum in London. This gallery, which has preserved much of its original design since its opening in 1881, is used to stage research that examines the connections between mineral extraction, global acquisition processes, the material components of mobile phones, and AI image generation

Object Type
Video

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Edited video of various sources donated to the collection by participants of the 2019 workshop

Curator's comments:

The edited video from the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019) depicts the work of various participants utilizing the video function of their mobile devices to explore the mineral collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Participants were encouraged, through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the workshop for research purposes. Many agreed, though under the condition that their work remained anonymous.  

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: video documents from and of workshop participants, Workshop, "Camera phone recording its own mineral condition",

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
3D Photogrammetry

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

3D Photogrammetric scan created of Chatsworth Head replica in the Room 72, British Museum

Curator's comments:

The scan was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The scan depicts a display cabinet designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1881. The cabinet contains minerals from the historic collection of the Natural History Museum. Each cabinet is labeled with a location and scientific denotation of the mineral group contained within the case. Each artefact within the cabinet is labeled with a specific definition of the form of the mineral, as well as its chemical composition and place of extraction.

The scan was created using the mobile app Scaniverse. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display cabinet containing minerals

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Historic Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum,

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting boehmite, a material used in nanofiber membranes for polymer lithium-ion batteries. Australia has extensive bauxite resources, with major mining operations like the Weipa and Amrun mines in Queensland, and the Huntly and Willowdale mines in Western Australia. These mines are among the world's leading producers of bauxite, which includes the extraction of boehmite alongside other aluminium minerals such as gibbsite and diaspore. These mines are entangled with Indigenous land rights and claims. For example, the Weipa mine, Queensland was originally part of Aboriginal reserves but was leased to the company Comalco (now Rio Tinto) to mine after the 'Commonwealth Aluminium Corporation Pty. Limited Agreement Act 1957' removed Indigenous ownership of the area surrounding the deposits. In 2022, Rio Tinto signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Traditional Owner representatives from the Alngith, Anathangayth, Peppan and Wathayn Traditional Owner groups on a consultation process around the closure planning for the East Weipa bauxite mine in 2024. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Boehmite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting sphalerite, the most important ore of zinc. Indium, an important by-product of zinc metal processing operations, is used in the manufacture of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO). ITO, a transparent conductive oxide, is widely used in the touch screens of mobile phones. The leading producer of indium from ores and concentrates is China, followed by South Korea. Japan also plays a significant role, primarily in recycling indium from indium-tin oxide (ITO) scrap. The impact of this process includes land degradation and habitat loss, water pollution, air pollution, as well as waste generation and toxicity from the refinement process.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Sphalerite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting a dendritic crystalline wreath of copper from the Moonta mines, South Australia. The Moonta area is part of the traditional lands of the indigenous Narungga people. The historic mines of Moonta, strongly associated with Cornish culture, closed in 1923, which led to a rapid decline in population. Today, the site is a heritage tourist attraction.

Copper is widely used for electrical wiring and connectors, printed circuit boards (PCBs), battery components, and microchips and processors. Chile is the world's largest copper producer, contributing around 27% of global copper production. Major mines include Escondida and Collahuasi. In 2021, BHP, the majority owner and operator of the Escondida copper mine in Chile, spent $93 million as part of an environmental plan designed to resolve a lawsuit from the state over water use and related damage to the fragile ecosystems in the country’s north.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Museum Visitors

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (37a) containing Monazite. Contained within this Real Earth Element are Terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb) and lutetium (Lu) are used in mobile phone batteries. Monazite is currently mined in costal regions, including India, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, and China. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Monazite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (13g) containing Halite. Halite (rock salt) contains sodium (Na), used in mobile phone touchscreens, and chlorine (Cl), used to make cases. It is mined in various locations worldwide, including the United States (notably in New York, Michigan, and Louisiana), China, Germany, India, and Canada. These regions have significant underground salt deposits, often formed from ancient evaporated sea beds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Halite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (19c) containing cassiterite. Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral and the principal source of tin, used in mobile phone circuit boards and in the creation of indium tin oxide, which forms the conductive layer used to monitor changes in electrical state as a screen is touched and swiped. Cassiterite, the primary ore of tin, is mined in China, Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), among other countries. However, mining poses significant problems such as environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and the funding of armed conflict, particularly in regions like the DRC.
 
Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Cassiterite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (10h) containing samples of Platinum. Platinum is used in mobile phone components, particularly in circuit boards and connectors because of its conductivity and resistance to corrosion. Platinum is primarily mined in South Africa, Russia, Canada, Zimbabwe, and the United States. However, in South Africa, platinum mining has been linked to significant problems such as environmental degradation and human rights abuses. Specifically, the Marikana massacre in 2012 highlighted the severe clashes between mining companies and local communities. In this incident, South African Police Service (SAPS) shot and killed 34 striking miners at the Lonmin platinum mine, underscoring the violent conflicts and labour disputes that can arise from mining operations.
 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Museum Visitors

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (11b) containing Calaverite. Calaverite is a mineral which contains both gold and tellurium, and is a primary source of Tellurium. This is a metalloid used in mobile phone components, particularly in the glass. Tellurium enhances the strength and durability of the touchscreen, making it more resistant to scratches and breakage. The material is primarily mined in countries such as China, the United States, and Canada. In these contexts mining has been linked to significant problems such as environmental degradation, health hazards for miners, and displacement of local communities.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Calaverite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
3D Photogrammetry

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

3D Photogrammetric scan created of Chatsworth Head replica in the Room 72, British Museum

Curator's comments:

The scan was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The scan depicts a display cabinet designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1881. The cabinet contains minerals from the historic collection of the Natural History Museum. Each cabinet is labeled with a location and scientific denotation of the mineral group contained within the case. Each artefact within the cabinet is labeled with a specific definition of the form of the mineral, as well as its chemical composition and place of extraction.

The scan was created using the mobile app Scaniverse. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Gallery of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Display cabinet containing minerals

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Historic Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum,

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
3D Photogrammetry

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

3D Photogrammetric scan created of Chatsworth Head replica in the Room 72, British Museum

Curator's comments:

The scan was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The scan depicts a display cabinet designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1881. The cabinet contains minerals from the historic collection of the Natural History Museum. Each cabinet is labeled with a location and scientific denotation of the mineral group contained within the case. Each artefact within the cabinet is labeled with a specific definition of the form of the mineral, as well as its chemical composition and place of extraction.

The scan was created using the mobile app Scaniverse. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Gallery of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Display cabinet containing minerals

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Historic Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum,

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (32c) containing orthoclase. Orthoclase is a source of potassium, which is used in the touchscreen glass of mobile phones. Potassium is mined in Canada, China, Russia, Belarus, Germany, Israel and the United States. However, mining in some regions has caused significant environmental degradation, including deforestation, soil erosion, and contamination of water sources due to the release of mining by-products such as heavy metals and chemicals like cyanide and sulphuric acid. In the context of Canada, the largest producer of potassium, these concerns are further entangled with Indigenous rights and land claims, as many mining operations occur on or near traditional Indigenous territories.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Orthoclase

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (19c) containing Arsenic. Arsenic compounds are used to make components in semi-conductors for electronics such as microprocessor and camera chips in mobile phones.Arsenic is primarily obtained as a by-product during the mining of metals like copper, gold, lead, and iron. Major producers include China, Chile, Russia, Mexico, and the Philippines. The mining process poses environmental and health risks, such as contaminating water and soil and exposing populations to toxic arsenic. Arsenic is a carcinogen and can cause serious health issues, including skin lesions and developmental problems in children. At some sites, mine wastes are illegally dumped in nearby unprotected piles or waterways. The accumulation of these tailings in riverbeds can cause flooding, which spreads metals, including arsenic, into local farmlands. Furthermore, mine waste rock often generates acid drainage, and when air and water come into contact with metal sulphide minerals, the resulting sulphuric acid solutions can leach into surface and ground water.
 
Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Arsenic

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (27g) containing Spodumene. Spodumene is a commercial source of Lithium. 

Lithium is primarily extracted from spodumene, a lithium-rich mineral, and brine deposits. Major producers include Australia, Chile, and China. In Australia, large open-pit mines like Greenbushes are located in the southwest, a region in which the Indigenous Noongar people reside. The Greenbushes area is known for being the longest continuously operated mining district in Western Australia. 

Nevada's Thacker Pass mine in the McDermitt Caldera is home to some of the world's largest lithium deposits. This site is contested by the People of Red Mountain (Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu, in Paiute), who use the slogan "Life over Lithium" to highlight their opposition to the mining operations on their ancestral lands. 

Lithium extraction and processing have significant environmental impacts. Spodumene mining destroys large land areas, causing habitat loss and biodiversity decline. Salt flat extraction is water-intensive, depleting local water resources and affecting ecosystems and communities. Additionally, lithium extraction can contaminate soil and water with harmful chemicals and heavy metals.
 
Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Spodumene

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (28f) containing Gadolinite.  Gadolinite or Ytterbite  is a source of Yttrium used to make the display colours in mobile phones.A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorisation, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (28f) containing gadolinite. Gadolinite, also known as Ytterbite, is a source of Yttrium used to make the display colours in mobile phones. Gadolinite mining focuses on the extraction of rare earth elements. Major producers include China, the United States, and Australia. 

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (28f) containing gadolinite. Gadolinite, also known as Ytterbite, is a source of Yttrium used to make the colour display in mobile phones, specifically tones of green.

Gadolinite mining focuses on the extraction of rare earth elements. Major producers include China, the United States, and Australia. In China, significant gadolinite deposits are found in the Bayan Obo Mining District in Inner Mongolia, one of the largest sources of rare earth elements in the world, owned and operated by the Chinese state-owned Baogang Group. In the United States, the Mountain Pass Mine in California is a key source of rare earth elements, including gadolinite. In Australia, the Mount Weld Mine in Western Australia is a prominent producer of rare earth elements, with significant deposits of gadolinite.

The mining of gadolinite and other rare earth elements poses serious environmental challenges, such as habitat destruction, displacement of Indigenous and other local communities, and the release of toxic substances into the wider ecosystem. These impacts necessitate strict environmental regulations and advanced technologies to mitigate the ecological damage.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Gadolinite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (33f) containing wolframite. Wolframite is a significant tungsten ore mineral.Tungsten is essential in the manufacture of components such as microphones and speakers in mobile phones. Major producers of tungsten include China, Russia, and Canada. China, in particular, has significant impact on the global tungsten market, with large mining operations in provinces like Jiangxi and Hunan.

The extraction of tungsten from wolframite involves both open-pit and underground mining methods, followed by a series of refining processes to extract the pure metal. These mining activities lead to environmental impacts, including habitat destruction, soil erosion, and contamination of local water sources due to the chemicals used in the extraction process.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Wolframite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (12f) containing Safflorite. This mineral contains cobalt, which is used in mobile phone batteries. Cobalt is a highly prized and highly contested mineral. The pain and suffering surrounding its extraction, particularly in the context of child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), highlights significant ethical concerns. The DRC is one of the largest producers of cobalt, and the mining conditions there often involve hazardous work environments, exploitation, and severe human rights abuses. Efforts to improve the situation include calls for better regulations, increased transparency in supply chains, and the development of fair-trade practices. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Safflorite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting the cabinet (18g) containing Quartz. A mobile device's glass screen is very durable due to the combination of silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand with ceramic materials and potassium. Layers of indium-tin-oxide are used to create transparent circuits in the display. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Quarz

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
cropped photographic image

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital photograph

Curator's comments:

This photograph, taken on a mobile phone, was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). Participants were encouraged through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Detail of a mineral contained in a display cabinet

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
Screen Shot

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Screen shot of app Trnio

Curator's comments:

This screenshot of a 3D photogrammetric scan produced in Trnio was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019)  Participants were encouraged, through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Quartz

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
cropped photographic image

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital photograph

Curator's comments:

This photograph, taken on a mobile phone, was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). Participants were encouraged through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Detail of a mineral contained in a display Cabinet

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
cropped photographic image

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital photograph

Curator's comments:

This photograph, taken on a mobile phone, was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). Participants were encouraged through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Detail of a mobile phone screen which is being used to photograph minerals contained in a display Cabinet

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
cropped photographic image

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital photograph

Curator's comments:

This photograph, taken on a mobile phone, was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). Participants were encouraged through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Detail of a mineral contained in a display cabinet

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
cropped photographic image

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital photograph

Curator's comments:

This photograph, taken on a mobile phone, was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). Participants were encouraged through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Detail of a mobile phone screen which is being used to photograph minerals contained in a display Cabinet

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
cropped photographic image

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital photograph

Curator's comments:

This photograph, taken on a mobile phone, was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). Participants were encouraged through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Detail of a mineral contained in a display cabinet

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
cropped photographic image

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital photograph

Curator's comments:

This photograph, taken on a mobile phone, was produced by a participant of the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). Participants were encouraged through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the museum, of which this artefact on display is an example.

Location
Displayed in the Remote Access Gallery of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Detail of a mineral contained in a display cabinet

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
Video

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Edited video of various sources donated to the collection by participants of the 2019 workshop

Curator's comments:

The edited video from the workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019) depicts the work of various participants utilizing the video function of their mobile devices to explore the mineral collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Participants were encouraged, through the distribution of a handout detailing the various minerals contained in mobile technology, their sources from current mining extraction, and their present position in the historic mineral collection of the Natural History Museum. Participants were asked whether they would donate their responses to the workshop for research purposes. Many agreed, though under the condition that their work remained anonymous.  

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: video documents from and of workshop participants, Workshop, "Camera phone recording its own mineral condition",

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "Geology Exhibition in Natural History Museum London explores “ the relationship between cell phone technology and mineral extraction” the scene is full of visitors “on their cell phones” the cell phones and object in display cases “screens suddenly crystallising” and in the exhibition the objects are “turning into stone in an instant". Imagine them "fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within.” The image is photographic high fidelity digital medium format "installation shot," --ar 10:8 --v 5.2" Quotes regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phone screens made of silica, images becoming objects could start a revolt the images themselves inside screens suddenly cristallising. Within LCD screens – which still constitute the majority of computer monitors and TV´s at this point of technological development, liquid crystals are carriers of the image information. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "https://s.mj.run/z1h6FVslM9c + Replicate this photograph but also include Geology Museum exhibition about mobile phones, highlighting the mineral extraction process in their manufacture. Display cabinets feature silicon sand and mobile phones, portraying minerals emerging from the screens as translucent quartz crystals. Single central display case. Lots of visitors in the exhibit. Despite the exhibition's popularity, visitors are often engrossed in their own mobile devices. + The image is High photographic fidelity in a museum cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens referential to the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phone screens made of silica, images becoming objects could start a revolt.imagine the images themselves inside screens suddenly cristallising. Within LCD screens – which still constitute the majority of computer monitors and TV´s at this point of technological development, liquid crystals are carriers of the image information. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding LCD screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "https://s.mj.run/qLC31ZBfwVA + British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phone screens made of silica, images becoming objects could start a revolt.imagine the images themselves inside screens suddenly cristallising. Within LCD screens – which still constitute the majority of computer monitors and TV´s at this point of technological development, liquid crystals are carriers of the image information. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "2D image on a mobile phone becoming 3D in a museum display cabinet. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. It is not what it shows that is extended, but it´s own material substance. They refuse showing anything but themselves as matter plus energy, as waves and particles as surfaces folded into other surfaces and suddenly emerging from them+ high photographic fidelity --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phone screens made of silica, images becoming objects could start a revolt the images themselves inside screens suddenly cristallising. Within LCD screens – which still constitute the majority of computer monitors and TV´s at this point of technological development, liquid crystals are carriers of the image information. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
"British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phone screens made of silica, images becoming objects could start a revolt the images themselves inside screens suddenly cristallising. Within LCD screens – which still constitute the majority of computer monitors and TV´s at this point of technological development, liquid crystals are carriers of the image information. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "https://s.mj.run/llkDhk2Hm-c + British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phones made of minerals, The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2.” The image is photographic high fidelity digital medium format "installation shot," --ar 10:8 --v 5.2" 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "mobile phone in geology museum exhibition space + the mobile phone is "bursting with minerals and silicon" the geology museum is "in london, full of people on their cell phones" the exhibition space is "full of display cabinets" the image is high photographic fidelity --ar 10:8 --v 5.2."  The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "post ecological catastrophe + Museum + Small room + geology + screen technology + Cramped + Single central display case+ visitors looking at display through mobile devices + High photographic fidelity + cinematic shot + Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction , "https://s.mj.run/m7JGcmhvChY https://s.mj.run/VzFUXrgLE-U https://s.mj.run/DU0a7QQ_kgM + ::1 + Geology Museum London ::1 highlighting the mineral extraction process in mobile Phone manufacture ::1 The image is High photographic fidelity in a museum cinematic shot ::1 --ar 10:8 --v 5.2."  The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "Geology Exhibition in Natural History Museum London explores “ the relationship between cell phone technology and mineral extraction” the scene is full of visitors “on their cell phones” the cell phones and objevct in display casese “screens suddenly crystallising” and in the exhibition the objects are “iturning into stone in an instant". Imagine them "fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within.” The image is photographic high fidelity digital medium format "installation shot," --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "https://s.mj.run/qLC31ZBfwVA + British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phone screens made of silica, images becoming objects could start a revolt.imagine the images themselves inside screens suddenly cristallising. Within LCD screens – which still constitute the majority of computer monitors and TV´s at this point of technological development, liquid crystals are carriers of the image information. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "https://s.mj.run/ba51uIqxzBQ https://s.mj.run/z1h6FVslM9c https://s.mj.run/O6OVJX3mUa0 https://s.mj.run/Gjkv2v5SlxA + ::1 + The exhibition is about mineral that make mobile phones. Display cabinets feature silicon sand and mobile phones, minerals merging from the screens as translucent quartz crystals. Single central display case. Lots of visitors in the exhibit + The image is High photographic fidelity + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight ::1 --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding crystallisation of screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "post ecological catastrophe + Museum + Small room + geology + screen technology + Cramped + Single central display case+ visitors looking at display through mobile devices + High photographic fidelity + cinematic shot + Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA).  

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Screen Recording

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
A screen recording of the interface of the app Record 3D's LiDAR video function. The image depicts minerals contained in a cabinet in close-up detail.

Curator's comments:

A screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app Record 3D was completed as part of research into the relationship between the global extraction of minerals for the production of mobile phone apparatus, the museum as a space of categorization, and post-photographic imaging processes. The video shows an adjusted view of a 3D LiDAR video within the app’s interface, depicting tantalite, an ore of tantalum. Tantalum is widely used in the production of capacitors in mobile devices due to its ability to hold high capacitance in a small volume. The leading producers of tantalum from ores and concentrates include the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, while China plays a significant role in refining the metal. The extraction and processing of tantalum can lead to significant environmental impacts, including land degradation, habitat loss, water and air pollution, as well as waste generation and toxicity from the refinement process.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Tantalite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

AI Text-to-images

Curator's comments:

Image series created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "neutral photograph detailed single ammonite fossil natural light in a museum display cabinet, natural history museum --v 5.2" 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: fictional fossil record, Ammonite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
3D LiDAR video

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
LiDAR video of visitors entering the Great Hall of the British Museum, London

Curator's comments:

Screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app "Record 3D"

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Museum Visitors

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Great Court British Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
3D LiDAR video

Museum number
1756,0101.669

Description
LiDAR video of visitors entering the Great Hall of the British Museum, London

Curator's comments:

Screen recording made in the blank software interface of the app "Record 3D"

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Museum Visitors

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Great Court British Museum

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-2 from input of AI Text-to-image created in Midjourney

Curator's comments:

This artefact is an AI generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was created from an initial image prompt.
The image prompt for the video was created in Midjourney with this instruction which was amended by Chat GPT-4, "institutional museum space, image should reference colonial violence of extractive processes of mineral collection, violence of the museum display cabinets containing silica (silicon dioxide or quartz) sand and glass of mobile phones, weird, translucent, people looking at their phones, cinematic shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 1. 9 and Aperture: f/ 1. 9 and ISO: 800 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 16:9 --v 5.2" The video is created in the manner of the surrealist game "exquisite corpse." Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML and Midjourney

Acquisition date
2024

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

AI Text-to-images

Curator's comments:

Image series created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "neutral photograph detailed single ammonite fossil natural light in a museum display cabinet, natural history museum --v 5.2" 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: fictional fossil record, Ammonite

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
Digital Poster

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description
Poster for Counterfield workshop

Curator's comments:

Poster used for online and IRL promotion for workshop, "Camera phone recording its own mineral condition" designed by Debby Kent with images by Peter Ainsworth. Text reads "A speculative practice-based workshop exploring the material constituents of mobile technology in relation to geological taxonomic display through the lens of the camera phone." The event was part of the research activities of the collective counterfield, consisting of PhD candidates from Goldsmiths University, Series Three: resonant interfaces, resistant fluidities

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Poster

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Debby Kent

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
Video

Museum number
1756,0101.673

Description

Digital video

Curator's comments:

This video document, taken on a mobile phone, was produced in preparation for the  workshop "Camera Phone Recording Its Own Mineral Condition" (2019). 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Historic Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from:  Natural History Museum London

Acquisition date
2019

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "British natural history museum presents a special exhibition on mobile phones. The subject is the extractive process of mining minerals. The objects in the case are mobile phone screens made of silica, images becoming objects could start a revolt.imagine the images themselves inside screens suddenly cristallising. Within LCD screens – which still constitute the majority of computer monitors and TV´s at this point of technological development, liquid crystals are carriers of the image information. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilizing as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. The image is High photographic fidelity + close up shot + photo taken by Hasselblad H6D - 100c and Lens: Hasselblad XCD 80mm f/ 5. 6 and Aperture: f/ 8 and ISO: 200 and Shutter speed: 1/ 250th and White balance: Daylight --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding LCD screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "Museum. imagine the images themselves inside screens suddenly crystallising. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilising as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. It is not what it shows that is extended, but it´s own material substance + high photographic fidelity --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding LCD screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
Slideshow of multiple post-photographic image created by AI

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video compilation of AI Text-to-images 

Curator's comments:

Image's created in Midjourney with this text - to -image prompt amended by Chat GPT-4, "Museum. imagine the images themselves inside screens suddenly crystallising. Now imagine them turning into stone in an instant. Imagine them fossilising as if in a flash and breaking all screens open from within. It is not what it shows that is extended, but it´s own material substance + high photographic fidelity --ar 10:8 --v 5.2." Sections of text regarding LCD screens extracted from the section "Images as Stones" in Hito Steyerl, 2012, Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D. 

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the PPM. 

Associated names
Representation of: Display in fictional Geology Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Midjourney 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
AI generated video from AI generated text-to-image

Museum number
1756,0101.401

Description

Video created in RunwayML Gen-3 

Curator's comments:

This artifact is an AI-generated video, created on the platform Runway ML. The video was produced from an initial image prompt of the first frame of the video "Historic Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum, 2024," also displayed in this gallery. Four-second sections are created at a time, where the last frame of each section becomes the first frame of the next. This process continues for a limit of 18 seconds.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: AI walkthrough of Historic Mineral Gallery, Natural History Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Runway ML 

Acquisition date
2023

Object Type
3D Photogrammetry and LiDAR

Museum number
1756,0101.002

Description

Photogrammetry and LiDAR scan

Curator's comments:

LiDAR and 3D photogrammetric scan of Historic Mineral Room, Natural History Museum.

Location
Displayed in the Mineral Room of the Museum of Computational Image Artefacts (MoCIA). 

Associated names
Representation of: Mineral Room, Natural History Museum

Acquisition Source
Extracted from: Natural History Museum

Acquisition date
2023