Spa at the End of Time: A 360° Immersive Dome Experience

​The Spa at the End of Time is a 360° immersive audiovisual work created by training a custom AI Flux LoRa model on drawings and paintings of hot tubs that were created during the artist’s multi-year investigation into relationships between hot tubs, techno-spiritualism, the body, the night sky, and emergent media forms.

​The work is accompanied by audio voiced in the style of a medium receiving transmissions from the astral plane. This framing draws a parallel between late 19th Century spiritualists such as the artist Hilma AF Klint and contemporary ideas about working with the non-human intelligence of AI.

​In these images, the hot tub appears as an architecture, interface, and metaphysical concept that envisions a divine spa awaiting humanity in a post-embodied future.

​The screening will be followed by an event at Monica Reyes’ space in the Museum of Vancouver to open an exhibition of prints relating to the Spa at the End of Time project.