Antikythera

Antikythera is a think tank reorienting planetary computation as a philosophical, technological, and geopolitical force.

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Antikythera takes its name from the first known computer ー the antikythera mechanism ー which was an instrument for planetary orientation, navigation, prediction, and planning. The name serves as inspiration for investigations of computational technologies that operate as a compass, not a slot machine. Planetary computation reveals and accelerates planetary intelligence.

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Antikythera’s work is far-reaching and currently centred in what it means to be human and non human with and between the field of AGI advances. It addresses how the world we have built, and the technologies created created, exceed planetary and human capabilities to imagine and action to imagine and action efforts that preserve our planet.

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As part of this effort Antikythera regularly publishes articles to raise these themes to audiences including high level policy makers for whom the concepts aren’t present in these crucial debates.

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Working closely with the team at we were tasked with the creating the bespoke visual content system to accompany one such article entitled, Auto: Planetary Platform Automation and the Automobilic Prehistory of Computational Force.

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We initially spent time as a team at the Barbican reading and decoding the key themes of the article. These thematic drivers formed the basis of the overall article visualisation as well individual motions behaviours that represent different sub themes within each chapter.

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The final web based visualisation brings together Stephanie’s article and accompanying archival moving image references in as a highly immersive, visually impactful experience.

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