IEEE ICME 2025, Nantes, France
Paper
Future Archaeological Archive is a speculative research project that explores how AI-generated imagery can operate as a future-oriented archival system under conditions of ecological collapse. Framed as a visual journal documenting an imagined archaeological expedition, the study investigates how collective memory is reconstructed when historical evidence is partial, degraded, or algorithmically mediated. The paper positions machine intelligence as an active interpretive agent that reshapes how history, ecology, and civilization are remembered.
Drawing on real-world ecological data combined with generative image synthesis, the research explores how algorithmic systems produce hybrid narratives that merge factual traces with speculative reconstruction. This project uses AI “hallucinations” as a methodological strategy rather than a technical limitation. By foregrounding these hallucinations within a multimodal generative pipeline, the study challenges conventional assumptions of archival objectivity and historical verification.
The resulting visual journal, composed of industrial ruins and nature-technology entanglements, functions as both an aesthetic artifact and a critical probe into machine-mediated historiography. The paper ultimately asks how authenticity, authority, and collective memory are negotiated when historical narratives are increasingly generated, interpreted, and curated by artificial systems, and what this shift implies for the preservation of ecological knowledge and the conceptual foundations of future civilizations.
LangChain(Prompt Engineering), ComfyUI(Flux, IPAdapter), Future Archaeology, Ecological Speculation, Collective Memory