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SWIM

Cybernetic Forests • 179 implied HN points • 14 Jan 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Archives Memory Training Data AI Visual Culture
  1. SWIM is a piece that visualizes the relationship between archives, memory, and training data. It explores the impact of training AI models on images and the implications for memory and synthetic images.
  2. The artist behind SWIM finds creating pieces as a way to think through ideas that might not work well with words. The process often clarifies thoughts or raises questions that are hard to articulate.
  3. The deduction of memory through photography or AI analysis is highlighted in SWIM, where a swimmer dissolves into training data, shifting the remembrance process to a mechanized model and potentially losing the essence of being remembered.

Rachel Jackson: Hypertext Monuments

Do Not Research • 0 implied HN points • 15 Oct 22
🎨 Art & Illustration Art Design Visual Culture Political art
  1. Artistic works can lose their original meaning when shared online and are often repurposed for commercial use.
  2. The concept of image aggregation raises questions about the politics of image distribution and how it impacts art and brand creation.
  3. There is a shift in the demographic of image collectors from curating personal aesthetics to focusing on creating marketable brand identities with visual references.

Alex Both: Landforms

Do Not Research • 0 implied HN points • 15 Oct 22
🎨 Art & Illustration Painting Geography Visual Culture Digital Art
  1. The artwork 'Landforms' is an oil painting that depicts a geographical diagram of landforms on a continent, created by merging images from Instagram and Google.
  2. This piece by Alex Both explores capturing attention in a visually busy culture by combining memes and personal photos to form a coherent image.
  3. The artist's process involved using Photoshop to blend and paint various images together in a way that reflects the visual information sharing prevalent in social media.
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