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http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com

Dinakel Berman uses google to wander an associative visual journey and takes us along for the ride.

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Erik Kessels printed out 24 hours of Flickr images to try to get at the realities of the glut of imagine exchange.

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Penelope Umbrico, TVs from Craigslist. Again we visit Umbrico’s smart appropriation of other peoples images, mining the various corners of the internet for an conceptual and aesthetic bang.

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So I think it is fair to say the AI generated images are very much about what it means currently to be digital. While we are not going into the code in this class I imagine that their might be ways for you, as artists, to dig into these types of images. Clearly you’d have to do more than just use the out put of their pertained data bases. You can not just present their images. Here is another, you can play with.

https://ganbreeder.app 

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This Rental Does not Exist (already a send up of the people site)

https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com

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https://thispersondoesnotexist.com

Moving into the realm of pure digital. This person does not exist displays AI generated portraits. Trained on faces these are not composite but complete a function of machine learning. Since the backgrounds structurally vary more that the aspects of the face they are the regions that are most likely to reveal the synthetic nature of the image —as seen here.

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http://www.azizcucher.net/project/interiors

Aziz + Cucher

#digital bodies

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http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/

Victoria Vesna was concerned about how the internet gave away aspects of control of our bodies as we moved as data online.

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http://www.allmylifeforsale.com

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Back in 1996, Jennifer Ringley decided to record her life one image at a time every three minutes. Her life blew up. Her site briefly became one of the the top 10 most popular sites on the web. She has not been on the web since 2003.

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Nancy Burson Warhead I (Regan 55%, Brezhnev 45%, Thatcher less than 1%, Mitterrand less than 1%, Deng less than 1%) 1982

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Kouhei Nakama

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Award-Winning GIFs by Micaël Reynaud Warp Space and Time

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http://erdalinci.com

Erdil Inci

—CNN story http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/21/world/meast/the-gif-artist-who-draws-with-humans/index.html

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Rick Silva using gifs to create a synthetic interruption into ecological spaces.

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Etienne-Jules-Marey, talk about shooting pictures

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