ZENZ(A)I

Weather sayings typify how for generations we have been looking for models to understand how nature works in order to predict the future. These predictions are partly based on probability theories, but also on imagination; they allow us to question realities, to see them and to recognise them.

Weather sayings also represent a linguistic infrastructure: the cultural heritage of a changing landscape, as well as illustrating the mechanisms we develop to gain a sense of control over future uncertainties. Additionally, time sayings are directly linked to the point of view of the observer. ZENZ(A)I is an artificial intelligence that creates new weather sayings based on current weather data, existing sayings and sentiment analysis of current tweets.

These new sayings, created by artificial intelligence, aim to interpret current weather and also predict future weather conditions. Artificial intelligence therefore confronts principles such as failure, wandering and discovery to approach the creative capacity from which humans derive their creativity.

This work is the result of a collaboration with the metrologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Birner from the Chair of Theoretical Meteorology at the Faculty of Physics at LMU Munich. The work was created thanks to the Grant for Fine Arts Munich, the Grant Young Art New Ways of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art and the Barcelona Producció La Capella program.

Artificial intelligence, 2022