The Name for Landscape is Horizon is a community-based artistic research project that explores the relationship between technology, memory, and landscape representation in the Catalan territory. In December 2023, I invited ten young women between the ages of 23 and 33 to document their surroundings using disposable cameras and to keep a personal journal of the experience, without relying on digital devices for a month. Based on their photographs and written reflections, I generated synthetic visual replicas using generative artificial intelligence. The project unfolded over the course of a year through meetings, workshops, and interviews with the participants, aiming to collectively reflect on the process of capturing, remembering, and technologically mediating the landscape. The final result is a video essay that functions as a collaborative audiovisual account of the process.

In parallel, as part of the Master’s in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at Pompeu Fabra University, I conducted an academic research tracing a genealogical journey through the technological traces of the image-making device in the depiction of landscape across three historical moments: from the Hudson River School and American luminism in the context of the Second Industrial Revolution, through the ecocinema of the 1970s within structuralist and materialist film, to the use of glitch aesthetics in digital landscape cinema of the 2010s. In all three cases, social, political, and aesthetic connections are drawn to contemporary text-to-image generative models for creating synthetic landscapes, underlining the importance of historically analysing the ties between technology, visual representation, and landscape to address the major ecological challenges of the coming decades.

Presentations and screenings

Digital Ecologies 3 Symposium Machine / Material / Land – Bath Spa University, UK (2025)