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- Light is no long required for producing images such as this. Instead, you need statistical and thermodynamic power on a vast scale.
- “Fully lights out” is the term used for facilities like warehouses that are fully automated.
- To “sunset” something, in tech jargon, is to discontinue, to phase out. Today, humans are being sunsetted, in many fields.
A girl’s voice asks us to create in our minds the image of "an audience”, sitting on chairs in a field at sunset, looking over at a huge warehouse surrounded by fences and cameras. This voice then guides us through a book that we each hold. The pages contain what seem to be photographs from January 2026 showing this same audience being guided, by a girl, through the high-tech fulfillment centre where she works. In this controlled and automated space of predictive, machine vision, an outage occurs. Systems go down; cheers go up; hallucinations unfurl in a last-gasp of imagination and sabotage.
concept, text, sound and edit - Ant Hampton
voice and Uscita - Alice De Crais
imagery - Emanuele Dainotti
book design - Roland Brauchli
audio-sync programming - Federico Poni
commissioned by Fidena Festival, Bochum, DE
funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
with extra support from Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, NL
series support - KANAL Pompidou, Brussels BE
executive financial management - Valerie De Visscher / Platform 0090
Time Based Editions is an imprint of PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPANDED PUBLISHING ATHENS
This is a prototype for Time Based Editions 04 which will be released September 2026
and forms part of a series of work by phased / romantic (Hampton / De Crais)
Nachtkritik 15 05 2026 Ant Hampton_Every Second of Downtime (D)