Son of a Serendipitous Glitch!
Having already worked for two weeks now with AI-generated images, gifs, and videos, alongside glitched images and data-moshed videos, I'm trying to brainstorm exactly what would make a strong project collection using these very processes.
In order to do that, I'd like to think about what they mean and how they deal with an image.
As far as I've worked with glitch so far, I'm most interested in the concept of the randomness/destruction of the medium as a jumping off point, and how materially the original seems to 'fall apart' in the process of messing with them. In that vein, I would want the initial images to be historical portraiture or still-life painting in order to perhaps question some of the material history and viewer-object politics behind these images in today's digital art world, as continually reproduced subject-object relations.
In particular, animals tend to be the objet d'excellence of this viewer-viewed dichtomony, and so could be an interesting continued theme. This would keep with a theme of animal transformations via AI, and the future of popular images of real-life animals proliferating online, while they are experience constant habitat destruction in real life. I think popular conceptions of animals have really changed via their ubiquity online, as images and videos, but how has this affected our conception of their future? Something along those lines would be interesting.
I've included here some BBC Planet Earth footage, some still-lives with birds and some Kafka short story animations as inspiration for the theme of animals. I have also included female sitters as subjects in this same arena, alongside a half-hazard brainstorm I did on the bus. These are also other subjects to go along with the theme of classic "sitters" being deconstructed via glitch and datamosh.
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