Where Ghirri used macro views of an atlas to read the world — describing mountains, cities, oceans, and deserts as a system of signs — ORACLE recontextualises that logic by shifting its focus to banknotes, turning emblems, portraits, seals, numerals, and national symbols into omens of market tensions, corporate expectations, and speculative finance. Every working day, a new image is generated by a procedural script driven by that day’s AEX opening values and the iconography of historical Dutch gulden banknotes.
Procedural work.
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Oracle’s Screen Prototype and debug images, from the Open Studio in the Futures Hub.
This project is being developed in the FUTURES Hub, in Amsterdam thanks to the FUTURES residency programme.