Linden New Art and Midsumma Festival present REAL FAKE, an immersive new audio-visual installation by Melbourne-based media artist Betty Sargeant. REAL FAKE invites audiences to consider the implications of artificial intelligence on global wilderness. Combining video and photography with hyper-realistic AI-generated scenes, REAL FAKE blurs the boundary between fact and fiction, prompting us to ponder whether what we see is captured by camera or conjured by computer algorithms. Our lives are mediated through screens. Advanced machine-learning software, virtual realities and deepfakes increasingly challenge our ability to distinguish the authentic from the artificial. REAL FAKE begs the question: what does it mean to experience the world through its simulation? How does this disrupt our definitions of reality and truth? And what are the environmental risks to this loss of connection to nature, as we unhitch our binds to the physical realm?