Sara Ludy’s Sessions: The Art of Remote Viewing
As image generation accelerates beyond human imagination, Sara Ludy redirects attention to human perception and intuition in her latest series curated by Office Impart for Art on Tezos: Berlin.
Ludy’s practice dissolves the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, the natural and the simulated. Working across numerous digital media, she treats technology as an interface through which consciousness can observe itself. From projects such as Dream House (2014), which modeled lucid dream architecture in 3D, to Tumbleweeds (2022), a land-based and online work linking desert glass reflections to digital star maps, her work seeks to perceive and visualize the unseen.
In Sessions (2025), she develops her exploration further by merging remote viewing, a technique rooted in parapsychological research, with an AI “tasker”. The result is a set of twenty-seven digital drawings represented by NFTs that function as records of human perception. The process of creation begins with the AI assigning random eight-digit coordinates, such as 7710 3382. The number holds no spatial value; it is simply a key linking the artist to an undisclosed target. Ludy enters a receptive state similar to meditation or controlled daydreaming, noting impressions that arise without rational interpretation. These intuitive fragments then become the subject for each drawing.
The practice known from remote-viewing protocols explored in the 1970s within U.S. parapsychology and intelligence laboratories, where researchers asked participants to describe hidden or distant targets using only randomly assigned coordinates. Ludy reclaims this controversial method as a form of artistic introspection, transforming it from a scientific experiment into a creative act of sensing. Through this process, she turns the act of drawing into a form of perceptual research, examining how intuition can produce meaning.
Each NFT in Sessions carries both an impression and a timestamp in its metadata. For instance, 5179 2644 (2025) records the impression: “Saturn’s Rings—the vast, luminous system of icy particles orbiting Saturn, appearing as elegant concentric bands when viewed from space.” That is further translated into a digital drawing rendered at 6600 × 5100 px, primarily a digital work, though collectors may also obtain an archival print (21.6 × 27.9 cm). And its timestamp, 09.13.25, 15:36–15:38 MST, Placitas, NM, revealing that this Session was produced within a brief interval, emphasizing the intuitive immediacy that defines Ludy’s process, and one can see similar length of intervals in other NFTs within the series as well.
Ludy does not designate AI to be a creative agent in this project but a structural and procedural taskmaster, assigning random coordinates and organising outputs of human perception. Its role is that of an archivist, preserving digitised relics of human intuition rather than generating them. By producing a closed set of twenty-seven tokens, each impression and drawing becomes evidence of an encounter between mind, algorithm, and the unknown. Together they chart “the rhythm of perception,” inviting viewers to recognise perception itself as the true subject of art.