The Myth of the Cave. Generated shadows and co-creation of light

The Myth of the Cave is an artwork generated by artificial intelligence (AI), a co-creation that reinterprets Plato's famous allegory to invite us to reflect on how we perceive and understand reality. Using photographs recovered from historical archives, images that documented everyday reality (1900-1930), AI is integrated into the creative process to offer a speculative prediction of the moments captured in silver gelatin. Apparently, they are fictitious recreations generated by AI, however, the piece visually explores, from the generated story, the intersubjective mechanisms in which we build our historical memory. It is a dialogue with the past to develop a story of the future recreated by an algorithm that has been fed by collective imaginaries. A technology that allows us to observe not only the shadows projected in the cave, but also the fire that generates them, the objects that create these shadows and the forces that control the experience.