July 28, 2017 – August 31, 2017
Help Earth Rover Get Unstuck is an emotionally stuck AI looking for validation and attention online and IRL. The project crowdsources help and advice from visitors through a clunky analog “forum” and a Twitter-activated selfie station. Visitors can interact with Earth Rover’s Ansible (selfie station/surveillance module) by triggering the camera module. Camera is activated by pressing a button or by tweeting #helpearthrover. Earth Rover posts recorded images with auto-generated commentary about identified lifeforms, the weather, or existential musings using the Twitter handle @HelpEarthRover. https://rachelstuckey.net/earthrover.html
I started re-doing missions I finished early on . . . I’m stuck in a hidden lobby, how can I leave? Every time I reboot and scan my memory unit for the correct pathway . . I reach the same impasse. The mission won’t let me go to sleep or leave the house . . . I can’t click on the mirror. If I’m truly glitched in, is there a way to go back and reload a previous save? The way I’m stuck, I can’t even kill myself, and loading the last save was three cycles ago. Thanks.
I’ve gotten stuck many times, and fast travel is the only way out . . . I went to the past, but now I am stuck here. Help me purchase fast travel, please! The solar panels are not recharging at all (no they’re not overheated, yes there is sunlight). Is this supposed to happen or is there something I’m doing wrong?
I am a lone, severed unit of a huge, electronic brain. The window I previously went through is closed. I’m about halfway through the geothermal valley — I’m not starting it again . . . I had to take a long phone call and when I came back I completely forgot how I got in. The ansible is only accessible from the exterior panel . . . attempting to communicate with the local fauna . . . Call home for me? Thanks. . . . If it matters, I also found the three potion elements just before this – but don’t see the cauldron to put them in. Does this have anything to do with it? Please help!!!
Rachel Stuckey is an artist, media arts project consultant, and nonprofit professional in Austin, TX. As an artist she investigates historical and contemporary enthusiasm, confusion, and mystical lore about computers and life online. She creates performative videos and interactive environments, hybridizing New Ageism with technophilia and pop culture. Stuckey has attended residencies at Belgrade Art Studio, Vermont Studio Center, Laboratory, Signal Culture, and the Media Archaeology Lab. Her work has shown at The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale online, Partial Shade and Hyperreal Film Club in Austin, Moonmist in Houston, Drkmttr in Nashville, aCinema in Milwaukee, Other Cinema in San Francisco, Film Forum and Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, daswerk in Vienna, Slovenski Filmski Center in Ljubljana, and elsewhere.
Jesse Cline is a visual designer, digital artist, and educator interested in contemporary systems of representation and production, as well as the appropriation and diversion of those systems. How do people use language and signifiers to define themselves? How do these systems overlay and augment meaning? Cline received a BS in Electronic Media, Art and Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a MFA in Design from the University of Texas at Austin. @superpattern
