John Fitzgerald: The Vivid Unknown: CloudQatsi

The Vivid Unknown: CloudQatsi is an ephemeral installation of projected light and water vapor, shaped by the violent nexus of nature, humans, and technology. The work reimagines Koyaanisqatsi — Godfrey Reggio’s seminal 1982 film — using a generative AI model and ongoing conversations between Fitzgerald and Reggio. Cast onto a drifting veil of mist, light gathers, fades, and returns. The image breathes, loosening the boundaries between atmosphere and environment, machine and element, presence and disappearance. As the very ground beneath us shifts from terra firma to techno firma.