L
AI Generated Film Slides and a Radio Speaker
2024
'L' is a collection of black-and-white photographs displayed alongside a real-time radio installation, exploring the intricate relationship between image memory, identity, and artificial intelligence. Inspired by anonymous film negatives discovered at a flea market, the project combines real-life street scenes with generative AI to create a fictional photographer's body of work.
The project lies in a roll of black-and-white street photography negatives from around 1970, featuring winter scenes with various people and urban landscapes. Using a combination of real-time street cameras and generative AI, the artist intercepts video feeds from global tourist attractions at different times of day. This raw data is then filtered through prompt engineering, synthesizing the artist's reflections to create a body of work attributed to the mysterious photographer 'L'. These fictionalized photographs are subsequently analyzed by Google's Notebooklm to generate an AI-produced radio art review program, critiquing L's work.
'L' juxtaposes AI-generated 'historical' photographs with synthesized art criticism, challenging the boundaries between personal narrative and collective experience. It demonstrates AI's potential to reshape our perception of the past while reflecting on technology's impact on our collective cultural memory across time and space.
This multi-layered experience invites viewers to navigate the boundary between fiction and reality, questioning the nature of pictorial memory and technology's role in shaping our understanding of photographic documents and identity. The interplay of visual and auditory elements creates an emotionally resonant experience with a sense of temporal and spatial dislocation, as contemporary street scenes are transformed into graphic narratives by generative AI, blurring the lines between modern technology and historical recollection.
AI Generated Film Slides and a Radio Speaker
2024
'L' is a collection of black-and-white photographs displayed alongside a real-time radio installation, exploring the intricate relationship between image memory, identity, and artificial intelligence. Inspired by anonymous film negatives discovered at a flea market, the project combines real-life street scenes with generative AI to create a fictional photographer's body of work.
The project lies in a roll of black-and-white street photography negatives from around 1970, featuring winter scenes with various people and urban landscapes. Using a combination of real-time street cameras and generative AI, the artist intercepts video feeds from global tourist attractions at different times of day. This raw data is then filtered through prompt engineering, synthesizing the artist's reflections to create a body of work attributed to the mysterious photographer 'L'. These fictionalized photographs are subsequently analyzed by Google's Notebooklm to generate an AI-produced radio art review program, critiquing L's work.
'L' juxtaposes AI-generated 'historical' photographs with synthesized art criticism, challenging the boundaries between personal narrative and collective experience. It demonstrates AI's potential to reshape our perception of the past while reflecting on technology's impact on our collective cultural memory across time and space.
This multi-layered experience invites viewers to navigate the boundary between fiction and reality, questioning the nature of pictorial memory and technology's role in shaping our understanding of photographic documents and identity. The interplay of visual and auditory elements creates an emotionally resonant experience with a sense of temporal and spatial dislocation, as contemporary street scenes are transformed into graphic narratives by generative AI, blurring the lines between modern technology and historical recollection.
