Can machines be autonomous image creators?
Para-scapes reflects about the autonomy of machines as image creators through a generative digital painting created with screenshots automatically collected from cctv cameras placed in the landscape.
A set of visual rules was translated into code which acts upon the collected screenshots, allowing for an infinite painting to be generated live on a website.
This stream of landscapes, brings up the idea of the surveillance cameras as a symbol of our impact on the landscapes, the fossils we will someday leave behind.
Thanks to @rafaelgoncalves.pt for the generative coding magic 🪄
And to @_inperez for the automated capture script 🫧
2023
Running live on
automated.luisatormenta.com/landscapes
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of collaborating with @luisatormenta on the installation design of her master diploma work Supra-memento. The work focused on the glimpses of spirituality within digital communications, and the installation draws inspiration from the function and form of the stained glass windows found in Gothic cathedrals.
Our goal was to create large and self-standing steel frames to hold a double-faced projection screen that would present the 4-channel video in the middle of the space, accessible and visible by all sides.
Two standing angular pieces, positioned facing each other, allow viewers to navigate freely between and around them, devoid of any predetermined paths or spatial hierarchy.
The structure was designed to appear equal from both sides, while still allowing for the mounting and dismounting of the projection textile. The textile was attached to a base welded frame made of “T”-shaped steel profiles. Afterwards, a flat steel plate is screwed in to conceal the junction and preserve the same appearance as the opposite side.
The frames were light and elegant to disappear in the darkness, while also being large enough to allow the projected moving images to inhabit the space.
After a few months to digest, I’m finally sharing my diploma work 🕊️
Supra-Memento is a 4-channel video installation that speculates on the preservation of human life within digital spaces, resisting the inevitable decay imposed on our tangible realities.
Through photogrammetry scans, I preserved my body and those of my loved ones, immortalising the ephemerality of human memories and relationships into a liminal (non) space.
While conveying an illusion of volume, the technique exposes the fragmentation of the data, revealing how these too are temporal shells, vulnerable to disintegration.
July 2023
Thank you to everyone that helped me and guided me through this journey 🤍
Sound Design by @goncalo_penas_
Installation created with @nksarmento
Sharing a bit of a dear project from last year 🍬
“We can try to hold hands” reflects on contemporary ways of communicating through digital devices and how it changes the way we hold memory of our relationships.
Reconstructing distant physical spaces in a digital parallel, the paradoxical feeling of constant connection battles with an augmented perception of the physical emptiness - a sense of lack that becomes loss.
2022
8min 2-channel video
Collages and video from my project Free Admission, developed for our exhibition “WON-SYAT” at @platforml.official
Free Admission explores the multitude of meanings embedded in the image of the Hanbok, a Korean traditional clothing. If worn, the Hanbok grants the wearer free entry to the historical city palaces. Rental systems in Seoul and tourism institutions profit from the power of image circulation online to establish a visual symbol of national identity and openly promote its foreign use. The power relationship between the cultural heritage of the country and its appropriation by foreign visitors becomes flexible, mutable and questionable.
The work combines photographs taken in Seoul with collected visual research including social media posts, historical pictures, K-drama stills and AI images.
WON-SYAT will be on view from this Tuesday until Saturday at the @ecal_photography open space.
Happy to finally bring this project to life!
My book Root will be available to buy at the @ecal_photography table during @accidents_artbookfair
A big thanks to all the people that helped me during this process 🤍
If you’re in Paris this weekend, come and say hi!
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Root reflects on the phenomenological aspect of domestic landscapes and its analogies to the perennial landscapes found in nature.
In a dialogue with an Artificial Intelligence Software, I used images captured in my room to generate fictional landscapes.
Inspired by the continued use of technology as a mediator between ourselves and the world, the narrative explores the dualities of the inside and outside, the real and the fake.
Limited edition of 22 copies
Size 21 x 29.7cm
Silkscreen cover on silver paper
