A series of photographs investigating the possibilities of AI. All pictures have their origin in a simple instruction: “contemplate the mystery of birth and death, while surrounded by scenes of civil war.”
The images presented here are full of references to ‘classic’ photography and very often are reminiscent of the styles of well-known photographers. Still, these images have no basis in reality and are also not the result of an artist’s skill or imagination.
Already in the early 80s, Baudrillard claimed that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is a simulation of reality. We all live in a kind of virtual reality, mediated by language and images. The advent of AI seems to bring this trend to quite another level, by outsourcing the creation of words and images to autonomous machines.
