Water-like series 若水_Water and Soil
2023
Water and Soil samples
2023
Water and Soil samples
The project is dedicated to the phenomenon of the irreproducibility of photography. It is associated with water, where a series of lifted Polaroid photos from water sources and actual water samples taken from the same water sources as the Polaroids are displayed. Polaroids and water have a connection, each print has its characteristics, such as spots, streaks, and more, related to the number and size of particles in the water at the time of printing. The project also addresses some topics raised in the article “Photography and Liquid Intelligence”, for example, how in photography liquids are always controlled by people. In these experiments, I was trying to find out how water from different sources influences the Polaroids. The project also comments on the role of water in climate change. Water collection by artists, scientists, and tourists is being compared in this project to show their different understandings and applications. The project also comments on the tourism flow phenomenon.
The AI produced film is actually also a part of the series and it is called “Latent Walk” as well. It is a dual meaning title, as it describes my physical wandering through what we believe to be material spaces on this planet we live on (we can’t possibly be in virtual reality right now, can we? Heh.) And of course the actual film is being produced by the AI training itself off of the imagery I recorded and then walking around in the high dimensional latent space it created while learning from those images. The film captures what it “sees” after producing a path. It is a comparison of my physical experience walking through material spaces with the virtual walk through spaces of the AI.
The AI produced film is actually also a part of the series and it is called “Latent Walk” as well. It is a dual meaning title, as it describes my physical wandering through what we believe to be material spaces on this planet we live on (we can’t possibly be in virtual reality right now, can we? Heh.) And of course the actual film is being produced by the AI training itself off of the imagery I recorded and then walking around in the high dimensional latent space it created while learning from those images. The film captures what it “sees” after producing a path. It is a comparison of my physical experience walking through material spaces with the virtual walk through spaces of the AI.