AGE OF NOISE
The machines said yes or no so that we didn’t have to.
For the first time in history our minds are being fed low-grade synthetic data created en masse by generative artificial intelligence. The sublimation of psyche’s dreamscape is going according to plan as the speed of sharing meets the scale of data centers rather than that of human comprehension.
So much information that truth and fiction are dissolved into the same background radiation. No one seems to know what will come of this, and no one seems to care. After all, obsessive rationality is just a profound form of madness, the horror of excessive illumination.
The digital realm, however, does not admit physical symbiosis. Our undesired bodies are not welcome, forsaken into exile by automated cognition. We are now forced to live with ghosts made on our own self image. Paranormal algorithm-worshiping thought-forms.
“At last a terrible multitude of duplicates had sprung into being.” (Dostoyevsky, The Double)
Welcome to the age of noise.
The work presents a series of morphed anthropomorphic figures, reminiscent of idealized classical sculptures and other cultural stereotypes aesthetically praised by reactionary movements such as right-wing extremists.
Although small, measuring less than 2cm, each subject is blown up to human size proportions, exacerbating the presence of noise in the image. Further grain fine tuning and digital enhancement ensues, juxtaposing multiple exposures revealed by mixed media interventions.
The resulting large scale impression should stand in direct physical opposition to the viewers body. The closer to the image, more immersive the image becomes and less context becomes legible: attention as a spectrum of focus distances.