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

Embodiments selection, installation view, Hek Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel 2023

Embodiments selection, installation view, Hek Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel 2023


Embodiments 1-176 overview

Embodiments 001 / Embodiments 002

Embodiments 003 / Embodiments 004

Embodiments 005 / Embodiments 006

Embodiments 007 / Embodiments 008

Embodiments 009 (courtesy Hek, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel) / Embodiments 010

Embodiments 011 / Embodiments 012 (courtesy Hek, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel)

Embodiments 013 / Embodiments 014 (courtesy Hek, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel)

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DE)
Embodiments ist eine Serie aus insgesamt 176 Bildern. 176 generierte Variationen desselben Themas: eine menschliche Figur in einer Jeansjacke hält eine Skulptur in den Händen, die das Gesicht verdeckt. Die Hände tragen Handschuhe, nichts lässt mehr auf ein real menschliches Wesen deuten. Embodiments sind Portraits der immer gleichen Person, einer 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 generierten Fotos aus der Embodiments 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.

Ziel der Arbeit war nicht die Umsetzung konkreter, origineller Ideen, sondern vielmehr der KI Raum für eigene Erfindungen zu geben, aus denen ich neue skulpturale Körper formen konnte.


EN)
Embodiments is a series of 176 images. 176 generated variations on the same theme: a human figure in a denim jacket holding a sculpture that covers the entire face. The hands are gloved, nothing suggests the presence of a real person. Embodiments are portraits of the same individual, one who is never actually visible. Identity is replaced by an embodied 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 generated photographs from the Embodiments series are visual manifestations of text commands containing keywords such as: imperfect extraterrestrial soul, misshapen organism, uncanny body parts, wobbly humanoid, tailored bionics, crumpled goddess, medical archaeology, confused memes, disordered engineering, and many more.

The aim of the work was not the realisation of concrete, original ideas, but rather to give the AI space for its own inventions, from which I could form new sculptural bodies.