PIGEON FUTURES ARCHIVE by Ziyang Wu is a collection of AI-generated pigeons that investigates the role of pigeons in future network infrastructure and their connections to various communication systems.
Inspired by Helga Tawil-Souri’s theory of the Internet Pigeon Network (IPN), the work proposes an alternative internet access infrastructure based on homing pigeons, replacing electricity and data-based artificial intelligence with bio-intelligence. It also explores the numerous identities that pigeons have assumed throughout human history—as spies, messengers, ecological guardians, and even cigar smugglers or flying rats. Pigeons emerge as a complex symbol, intertwining themes of war, history, AI archaeology, technology, and dark humor.
Based on PIGEON LEGEND: STORIES 100 YEARS AFTER AGARTHA, the sequel to AGARTHA. Beginning with the DARK CONNECTION LABORATORY, this work uses multiple narratives to explore the role of the Internet Pigeon Network in future network infrastructure, its connection to communication systems, and the various identities pigeons have held throughout human history.
In the following 100 years, Patch—great-grandson of Agartha's protagonist Lien and a hybrid carbon-silicon archaeologist—redefines the meaning of pigeons, revealing their mysterious fate: they are either deified, shot down, or turned into soup. Patch transmits his findings back to Agartha 100 years earlier while also archiving them for future generations in the hopes that future archaeologists will extend the legend.
This work presents the pigeons’ mystery and uncertainty across time and space—heroes, criminals, keen-eyed observers, power pills, scoundrels, saints, infiltration tools, anti-drone technology, silicon-based emissaries, AI garbage, or perhaps something even more incomprehensible.
