Using a custom Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), artist Sergio Albiac has generated a series of portraits for a project titled You have learned nothing.
“Emerging from the shadow of time, they came to praise our scientific and technological prowess,” said Albiac. “Queens and noblemen then and state-of-the-art hallucinations now, these people seem to smile at our contemporary propensity to confuse knowledge with wisdom. Their faces are as grotesque as our ability to repeat mistakes.”
“I experiment at the visual intersection between generative computer code and traditional media,” explained Albiac. “I write computer programs that transform reality to express ideas about identity, beauty, chance and human emotions. My work revolves around the universes we create in our minds and the tensions that arise when confronted to our realities. The illusion of control in a world much governed by randomness and the existing negotiation between reason and instincts are recurring inspirational themes.”
“I am guided by uncertainty, intuition and passion and I want to stimulate in you alternative answers to old questions or better, brand new doubts,” added Albiac.
Using a custom Generative Adversarial Network to allow “expressive control of form abstraction and edge quality, for both static and dynamic imagery”, the AI algorithm was trained on a set of Dutch painting masterpieces.
Albiac has stated that the generated portraits can be outputted in various formats ranging from video art to giclée prints on archival fine art paper.
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