In doing so, it highlights the ability of AI’s pseudo-intelligent neural networks to let us more closely examine the nature of visual meaning-making, via a reflection of our own intelligence in a machine.
Faceless portrait series#
The second series plays with the tradition of memento mori. If photography freed painting from the task of representation, then how will AI change how we make visual culture? Further still, the ability of algorithms to generate imagery from their “imagination” causes a severance between imagery and reality altogether.
“Deepfake” videos of political figures now challenge the status of the image as an index of authenticity. At our present moment, the advent of AI-generated imagery asks us to consider the work of art in the age of not only mechanical reproduction but also algorithmic production. The first series investigates the history of the image with portraiture as its focus. The first series examines this joint effort between man and machine as a historically specific moment in the chronology of image-making the second focuses on how artificial intelligence serves as a mirror to reflect human (sub)consciousness. The exhibition shows two series of works on canvas portraying uncanny, dream-like imagery generated by AICAN excavating the ageless themes of mortality and representation of the human figure. HG Contemporary proudly presents Faceless Portraits Transcending Time, a collaboration between an artificial intelligence named AICAN and its creator, Dr. Entitled Faceless Portraits Transcending in Time, the exhibition will run from Februthrough March 5, 2019.
New York, NY – HG Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by AICAN + Ahmed Elgammal.
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