Utopian Extraction consists of Ecosystem, Sisyphus Dataset, and an installation called Fresh Stone, along with a video of the same title. Utopian Extraction is a 32 minute video documenting the sites, such as the vast sand mountain created by the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project and the Saemangeum Haechang Stone Mountain, which was dug up to procure soil and stones for reclamation. Unmake Lab roamed the sites of nature, which eventually changed into a similar shape as it was extracted and transformed according to human purposes. Then it brought stones with broken outlines from there.

Unmake Lab viewed the stones as the media that stored history, journeys, and human desires from “the stone’s point of view,” and constructed a dataset with the stone images. To increase the accuracy of artificial intelligence learning, Unmake Lab amplified data from 25 sheets to 10,000 sheets through data augmentation, a pre-processing to inflate a small amount of data. Unmake Lab names it Sisyphus Dataset, based on the ‘Sisyphus myth.’ The stones appearing in the video Sisyphus Dataset composed of this data and the video Fresh Stones reflecting the perspective of artificial intelligence in real-time are a metaphor for a dehumanized view of a human-centered narrative and the technology designed to make human life more convenient. Another video, Ecosystem, shows the perspective of artificial intelligence that reads different objects, such as zebras and cushions, while Unmake Lab appears as a performer and changes its body movement. Through this, Unmake Lab pays attention to artificial intelligence’s “novel” possibility that creates an entirely new story outside the human cognitive system.