Moon of a Million Pictures
2025
video, 13:53min
Moon of a Million Pictures looks at the moon through the lenses of phones. Certain manufacturers silently introduced a controversial software feature that “merges” camera data with with an AI-generated overlay of the moon surface, misleading users into thinking they were taking unaltered photos of the moon.
The moon shines the same for everyone. It is the symbol of the inalienable and universally shared human experience. Moon of a Million Pictures bears testimony to how the moon was secretly swapped for a digital stand-in, a projected texture drawn like a curtain between the human eye and the millennia-old companion of all life on earth.