Anthromorph’s Homage to Darwin in “Unnatural Selections: AI Portraits”
Playform’s Artist-in-Residence Anthromorph shares their latest exhibition “Unnatural Selections: AI Portraits,” culminating in 111 original works.
January 21st, 2020
Anthromorph will discusses and debuts "Unnatural Selection: AI Portraits," the culmination of the artist's month-long residency with Playform. The exhibition is constructed using a hybrid of experimental creative practices by using masks that the artist created, as well as photography and digital manipulation. The end result is 111 selections of AI portraits.
View the Artist Talk with Anthromorph
AI opens a world of infinite design possibilities, drawn and presented to you. It became the perfect tool for experimentation and broadening of concepts. It becomes an infinite mirror of all your inputs (limited physical experimentation).
Feeding/fertilizing the ai, was like fertilizing a petri dish with my finger's bacteria.
Working and making the bodies, slowly revealed biologies and connections between them. through combination of machine (ai software/ image capturing/ computer) and organic (my human body/ masks used as exoskeletons) new types of evolutionary bodies appear in the form of images.
not constrained by physics, solely by the GAN patterns, the bodies can form into anything they want to.
bodies made via trial and error, the less defined are discarded like natural selection. the finest outposts went along to fertilize a new generation of variants. From 25.000 images all together the evolution and refinement continued until 111 remain.
-Anthromorph on “Unnatural Selections: AI Portraits”