Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg digitally brings white rhino back from the dead at RA Eco-Visionaries exhibition
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg digitally brings white rhino back from the dead at RA Eco-Visionaries exhibition
His name was Sudan. And poignantly, he was the last of his kind, the last male northern white rhino. His final years were spent on a nature reserve in Kenya. Old and infirm, he was put to sleep in March, 2018. His death, at 45, made news headlines around the world.
But now, almost miraculously, Sudan is back and roaming again digitally. He's currently a star life-size exhibit at London's Royal Academy. The show is called "Eco-Visionaries" and is about how artists, designers, architects are responding to the climate emergency.
Ginsberg's six minute video installation is called "The Substitute" (2019). Sudan was re-created from zoo archive footage and computer models supplied by a London visual effects company, The Mill, while the way he moves is based on research by artificial intelligence company DeepMind.
"Eco-Visionaries" is at London's Royal Academy until Feb. 23, 2020.
29 November 2019