COSMlC 1001:Receiving Future News of Space Exploration

COSMIC 1001: Receiving News from the Future of Space Exploration is an interactive moving-image installation built upon generative artificial intelligence, historical archives, and the language of news media. Taking the history of human space exploration as its point of departure, the work reorganizes real aerospace events into a news-based archive and invites audiences to imagine possible futures through AI-generated reporting.
Technically, the installation combines a structured archive of real space exploration records with a generative pipeline for multimodal news production. Historical missions, celestial bodies, spacecraft, and discovery events are organized into a searchable database that functions as the system’s archival foundation. Visitors can browse this archive and then submit a question about the future, or select parameters such as year, target celestial body, and mission name. Based on these inputs, the system uses generative AI to produce a speculative “future news report,” including a headline, article text, visual imagery, short moving-image content, voice narration, and an indication of the scenario’s potential feasibility. In this way, the work connects archival retrieval, natural language generation, image and video synthesis, and audiovisual presentation within a single interactive experience.
The installation does not seek to predict the future. Instead, it treats the future as a public space that can be discussed, imagined, and collectively constructed. In this work, news serves both as an archival form and as an interface for future imagination. Through familiar formats such as news webpages, broadcast-style moving images, and timeline-based structures, visitors are no longer positioned as distant viewers of the grand narrative of space exploration. Rather, they enter an unrealized moment as “receivers of future news,” reading, listening to, watching, and evaluating a possible event in humanity’s cosmic future.
The central visual environments of the work are the news-generation page and the “Future Tunnel.” All future news items generated by visitors are stored and displayed within a shared spatial visualization interface. Each generated news image appears as a possible future that can be approached and explored, distributed throughout the space according to its imagined time and estimated plausibility. As audience participation continues, individual questions accumulate into a collective archive of future imagination. The installation thus transforms personal inquiry into a shared and evolving public landscape—one that reflects diverse visions of space exploration, technological development, and humanity’s capacity to imagine what lies ahead.
《COSMIC 1001：接收来自宇宙探索未来的新闻》是一件基于生成式人工智能、历史档案和新闻媒介的交互影像装置。作品以人类宇宙探索的历史为起点，将真实航天事件整理为新闻化档案，并通过生成式人工智能回应观众关于未来宇宙探索的提问。观众首先浏览由历史任务、天体目标、航天器、发现事件构成的新闻档案，随后输入一个关于未来的问题，或选择年份、目标星体和任务名称等条件。系统会基于历史档案和未来语汇生成一条“未来新闻”，包括新闻标题、正文、图像、视频、语音播报和实现可能性提示。作品并不试图预测未来，而是将未来作为一种可以被讨论、被想象、被共同建构的公共图景。新闻在作品中既是档案形式，也是未来想象的界面。通过熟悉的新闻页面、播报影像和时间线结构，观众不再只是远距离观看宇宙探索的宏大叙事，而是以“未来新闻接收者”的身份进入一个尚未发生的时刻，阅读、聆听、观看并判断一个可能的宇宙探索事件。作品的核心视觉空间为新闻生成页和“未来隧道”。所有观众生成的未来新闻会被存储并呈现在一个共享的空间可视化界面中。每一条新闻图像都像一个可抵达的未来，按照时间和可能性分布在空间中。随着观众的不断参与，个体提问逐渐累积成一个集体性的未来档案，形成关于宇宙探索、技术发展和人类想象的多元图景。

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