Gints Gabrāns. Grand Final Opening
21.06.2020 - 13.09.2020.
Gints Gabrāns
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Latvia
The work process uses neural networks: self-learning systems that accumulate experience (in this case, recognition of images from exhibition openings) and genetic algorithms that create original populations (by selecting images from exhibition openings), and from crossing population generations. Through random mutations, new generations are created with the selection of the best candidates. The process is evolutionary and iterative*. The selection is based on artistic subjective criteria.
Man is most like a machine when he thinks
Under the commands of Gints Gabrāns, AI has generated figurative visions of the exhibition openings, that show reminiscences of modern painting at its dawn - Symbolism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Impressionism, Surrealism, etc. AI presents a surprisingly similar image culture to the modern "isms" once created by biological intelligence, which emphasized the uniqueness of painting in the Industrial Age with the help of human thinking. Like many other manifestations of AI, there is currently no complete explanation for this, but AI researchers put forward a version that man is most like a machine when he thinks, whereas the human basis is the unconscious layers of our intellect.
For social narrative researchers, the GRAND FINAL OPENING is confusing because it breaks one's head when looking for a reference point for critical interpretations deciding on the addressee: is it now ("about us") or in the future ("about them with artificial superintelligence").
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