Inspired by the title of a speech prepared for President Nixon in case the mission went wrong
The programme kicks off with an Emmy Award-winning interactive experience that is a deep dive into misinformation and conspiracyUsing AI to tell an alternative history, the show brings to light how an event as influential as the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing could be manipulated, and how doubt can be cast on even the most well-known of facts
Despite the United StatesĀ“s space race rival at the time not even raising any doubts, a YouGov poll from 2019 found 16% of the British public believe the moon landing most likely never happened
It remains one of the most famous conspiracy theories in the world, and one aspect that has been caught up in the theory is a prepared speech by President Nixon that was to be given in case the mission ended in catastrophic failureThe speech, titled 'In event of moon disaster', was of course never delivered, but now visitors to the Sainsbury Centre will be able to experience it like never before
American new media artist Halsey Burgund (b.1973) and British digital artist Francesca Panetta (b.1977) have reconstructed the speech with the use of state-of-the-art deepfake technologyPlayed back on a vintage television like the ones that carried the moon-landing broadcast to 1960s living rooms around the world, the installation will highlight the media that are used to either build or destroy trust
Both artists draw on their expertise in technology and creative fields, with Burgund being Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Panetta as Director of the Storytelling Institute at the University of the Arts, London
The artists said: "By using the most advanced techniques available, creating a video using both synthetic visuals and synthetic audio (a "complete deepfake"), we aim to show where this technology is heading - and what some of the key consequences might be."
In Event of Moon Disaster is an MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality productionThe work won an Emmy Award for Interactive Media Documentary in 2021
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Artists: Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta
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