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title: "Latent Spacecraft"
description: "The paper's name for its method and its interactive object: a traveler or vessel that walks a two-dimensional slice of a GAN's latent vector, generating outputs as it goes, to show that embeddings are \"somewhere\" and the interior is partially walkable."
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# Latent Spacecraft

> A working definition written for this wiki from the reading notes; not Antikythera's own wording. From Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/terms/latent-spacecraft), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work.

The paper's name for its method and its interactive object: a traveler or vessel that walks a two-dimensional slice of a GAN's latent vector, generating outputs as it goes, to show that embeddings are "somewhere" and the interior is partially walkable. Deliberately 2-D, not 3-D, to avoid faking experiential spatiality for a space of hundreds of dimensions; it yields "an intuitive and erratic index of the inside," not a representation. Modeled on Greg Lynn reading Eiffel's hidden armature inside the Statue of Liberty: architecture as locating and explaining an interior never meant to be seen. Companion instruments: extreme-value interpolation, layer-averaged feature maps, concatenated outputs, nonce words.

## Appears in

- [Latent Spacecraft](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/latentspacecraft) (2026-02-04)
- [Cognitive Infrastructures](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/coginfra) (2025-05-10)

_Glossary generated 2026-09-06._