Taketo Muroi - The Silent Orders 9

Technique: Promptography on fine art paper
Image size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2025

The Silent Orders 9

With No. 9, the series returns to a technological topography, but in a significantly refined, almost organic form. The image structure is reminiscent of a hybrid architecture of conductor tracks, circuits, and urban planes—a city that wasn't built, but rather grew organically. Copper and gold tones dominate the center, while cool blues and turquoises run beneath them like underground canals or data streams.

In the context of Nos. 4 and 8, this work can be read as a synthesis: While No. 4 presented the machine as an isolated, almost sacred object, and No. 8 revealed the inner dynamics of order, No. 9 unfolds order as a networked system. Nothing stands alone. Every line is a connection, every surface a transition. Here, order is no longer vertical or hierarchical, but rhizomatic.

The antenna or measuring device in the upper section is striking: a silent observer that doesn't transmit, but listens. It lends the work an epistemic dimension. Order arises not through control, but through perception. The AI ​​doesn't generate a clear function, but a plausible structure – a system that appears credible without being explainable.

This shifts the "silent order" once again: from energy ( No. 8 ) to intelligence. The Silent Orders 9 presents order as a learning structure, a landscape of algorithmic decisions. A world no longer planned by humans, but by self-optimizing processes – quietly, efficiently, and inexorably.