Speculative Treasures
Speculative Treasures is based on a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) trained to reconstruct images of goldsmith pieces belonging to the Quimbaya Treasure. The images are generated by an algorithm of Machine Learning, which is designed to create two-dimensional representations of the original artifacts currently housed in El Museo de América in Madrid.
Artificial Intelligence is used as a radical creation tool, operating between the limits of art, science and technology to carry out a project that makes use of art as an activism tool. In addition, it seeks to transgress and redefine deep-rooted arguments and concepts about repatriation and colonial histories, investigating the technological, patrimonial, and archaeological relationship between decolonial practices and the characteristic media of the digital age.