MARGARET MURPHY | FUTURE PASTS, PAST FUTURES

The absurdity of AI text-to-image outputs is used as a metaphor for making sense of our pasts as teens in Margaret Murphy's FUTURE PASTS, PAST FUTURES, while simultaneously hypothesizing adolescence in the future. Murphy explores popular adolescent cultural traditions like prom, summers at county fairs, joyrides, house parties, summers pool-side, family vacations, and skate parks with a reverent nostalgia that, in connection with AI, feels almost like last night's dream. As time passes and memories fade, technology both helps us recall and forget our pasts more swiftly. Murphy's series attempts to comprehend the perspectives of adolescent absurdities through AI wonders about teenagers of the future.