Cover. Take selection, installation view, Hek Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel 2023 (right: My Wearable Pets)

Cover. Take selection, installation view, Hek Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel 2023

Cover. Take selection, installation view, Hek Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel 2023


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DE)
Cover. Take ist eine Serie aus insgesamt 300 Bildern (in Arbeit). 300 generierte Variationen des immer gleichen Themas: eine menschliche Figur in Jeansjacke hält eine Skultpur in den Händen welche das Gesicht verdeckt, die Hände tragen Handschuhe, nichts lässt mehr auf ein real menschliches Wesen deuten. Es sind Portraits der immer gleichen Person, eine Person die nie zu sehen ist, die Identität wird durch eine Skulptur ausgetauscht, verkörpert.

"The computer is giving us its interpretation -- of a sculpture. It's, uh translating it for us; it's rethinking it, rather than reproducing it, and something is getting lost in the translation." – abgewandelters Zitat aus dem Film The Fly von David Cronenberg

Die Menge von 300 Bildern spiegelt zum einen die unendlichen Möglichkeiten maschinengenerierter KI-Bilder, Bilder die sich niemals wiederholen, zum anderen die Neugier mit der KI zu komminizieren, im 'Raum der Möglichkeiten' (Latent Space) zu wühlen und aus den Millionen von Daten eigene fiktive Skulpturen zu bauen. Alle Bilder aus der Serie sind visuelle Manifestationen von Textbefehlen welche unter anderem Stichworte enthalten wie: imperfect extraterrestrial soul, misshaped organism, uncanny body parts, wobbling humanoid, tailored bionics, crumpled goddess, medical archaeology, confused memes, disordered engineering, u.v.m.

Ed. 1+1 AE (jedes Bild ist ein Original)
Preis pro Bild CHF 3600.- inkl. Rahmen, handsigniert


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Cover. Take is a series of 300 photographs (in progress). 300 generated variations on the same theme: a human figure in a denim jacket and gloves is holding a sculpture in one hand, which covers the entire face. There is no human skin to be seen, no sign of a real human being. The photographs portray one person, a person under cover. Identity is exchanged, embodied by a sculpture.

"The computer is giving us its interpretation -- of a sculpture. It's, uh translating it for us; it's rethinking it, rather than reproducing it, and something is getting lost in the translation." – adapted quote from the film The Fly by David Cronenberg

The number of 300 images reflects, on one hand, the endless possibilities of machine-generated AI images, images that never repeat themselves, and, on the other hand, the curiosity to communicate with the AI, to dig into the 'latent space' and build one's own fictional sculptures out of millions of data. All the images from the series are visual manifestations of text commands which include keywords such as: imperfect extraterrestrial soul, misshaped organism, uncanny body parts, wobbling humanoid, tailored bionics, crumpled goddess, medical archaeology, confused memes, disordered engineering, and more.

Ed. 1+1 AE (each photograph is an original)
Price per image CHF 3600.- including frame, hand-signed