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Transitory Encounter: an exploration into generative systems @ The Wrong Biennale 2019/2020
Multiple Personality
The process begins with selection of 'human' faces generated from the website This Person Does Not Exist. Built on a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) the site creates fully automated human image synthesis by endlessly generating images that look like facial portraits of human faces. My selection is largely influenced by colour preferences across the whole image.
The 'faces' are then subjected to random transformations using Decim8 (We destroy in order to create), a glitch app developed for both iOS and Android devices by Kris Collins. Different filters at different strengths are randomly generated before output. No two images are ever the same. Approximately 1 in 30 images might be saved for further use.
In a world where 'fake news', face recognition software, constant CCTV surveillance, augmented and virtual reality, deepfake deceptions, identity theft and image manipulation can blur our notion of what is ultimately 'real', net.art in the form of generative processing can also question the creative act. What ultimately matters is the end image. There is an obvious aesthetic judgement in what eventually gets exhibited, but what interests me is that the images differ from what I 'normally' would create by conscious construction. One's training in, and knowledge of the elements of design and principles of composition can at times constrict the creative process. New pathways to new territories evolve.
Information overload can blur the senses but at what point are humans still able to identify the image of a human face? How much 'decimation' has to occur before it becomes unrecognisable? Portraiture in art has always looked beyond simple identity. In conceptual art the idea of self is paramount (“I think, therefore I am (an artist)” to paraphrase Rene Descartes). In Transitory Encounters the notion of 'selfies' becomes 'otheries'. Chance encounters with generative systems leads to a new reality. The self no longer exists...
You can see the complete exhibition here...
The Last Broadcast
This film was specifically designed to be viewed on a mobile phone. Originally developed for the offline WiFi router project as part of The Wrong Biennale 2019-2020. Feel free to download to your device.
Selected for /’f̈́u:bar/ Glitch͜ A᷈rt Festival 2019.
SPAMM (SuPer Art Modern Museum)
Absolutely stoked out of my tiny little mind to be included in SPAMM (SuPer Art Modern Museum). For me this represents one of the biggest, if not the biggest achievement of my creative journey. As one who has for most of the time sat on the margins and felt like an outsider in the mainstream art world, it's nice to feel like I finally belong somewhere. Check out some incredible art by artists working in the digital field! Enter SPAMM here...
I just wanted to say... (automatic poem)
I just wanted to say...
I love you
Im eternal....
Hey thanks
in all my life, in all your life,
thoughts just fly away, brittle winds throw up your thoughts, nothing
left to say
there is room for one more inside
I hope you have a great day!
Many of these things are
that even thought the nature of
existence is the one of suffering, we are all in this together.
you were right but it doesn't change
the fact that we're about to die. i'm sorry i couldn't give _____
back to you. don't forgive me. let me die with the guilt proferred,
weightless and glimmering, zeroes and ones, an echo in the sound.
humanity is great and awful and i want
to hug and kill everyone
Geopoliticus Face Alienated
That knowing the time of day...
fuck the unluck of good ppl
Listen learn and try to understand and
call out hypocrisy whenever you can
Nothing worse than trumped up monkeys
who think they are special
This salmon scanned at ten dollars, but
it says nine ninety nine on the shelf
This poem was written by you, or someone, or somebody. It started with a publicly available Google Form promoted through this site and social media. The idea being that you could contribute to an automatic poem. The contributions were completely anonymous. I don't know who wrote what or what country they came from or whether it was many people or just one. Some people have obviously tried to contribute in the spirit of the experiment. Others, well you wonder why they bother. I had an interesting discussion with a software developer a few weeks back who coined the term 'crowd sourced art', which I like as a concept. His experience of such things were that given the chance people were more likely to draw a moustache on a face than use the opportunity to participate in collective creativity. So this is it, without edits or embellishment. There is some beautiful and thoughtful writing which moves me. Great poetry? I think perhaps not. But then, maybe my preconceptions have to adjust to the reality of what now exists. So, I just wanted to say...
