Garden,
Mnemonic Fields
La Fée Électricité
2024
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'Garden' is an animation of generative glitches produced by AI (LoRA) models in deliberate conflict. Using multiple LoRA models to generate imagery suggesting flowers in a garden, the piece replaces traditional representations of plant life with a fluid, hallucinatory exploration of growth, decay, and metamorphosis. These transformations suggest alternative ways of understanding organic growth, where boundaries between individual organisms become fluid and permeable. Created using layers of translucent animorphs, this movie presents a continuously shifting and converging counterpoint to the accompanying music. It questions how technological mediation can unveil aspects of natural systems invisible to human perception, presenting organic life as dynamic, unpredictable, and fundamentally processual rather than static or documentary.
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'Mnemonic Fields' is an animation of generative glitches made by AI (LoRA) models interacting to cancel each other's work. Each individual aimaglitch serves as a keyframe in an animorph that flows across the screen. This transformative process evokes the continuity of time, organized into discrete moments that begin with the inchoate experiences of childhood. The hallucinatory imagery emergent throughout this movie reflects the viewer’s own desires for coherence and comprehension.
'Mnemonic Fields' sits at the intersection of several contemporary dialogues: the role of AI in artistic creation, the nature of consciousness and memory, and the relationship between technology and human perception. By using AI models to create work about human memory and perception, the piece raises questions about the similarities and differences between machine learning and human learning, digital and organic memory, and artificial and natural consciousness.
This use of competing LoRA models represents a novel approach to generative art. Rather than using AI simply as a tool for image generation, the piece employs the tensions and conflicts between different AI models as a fundamental creative force. This approach suggests new possibilities for artistic applications of machine learning, where the imperfections and contradictions in AI systems become a source of aesthetic value rather than technical problems to be solved.
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'La Fée Électricité' (The Electric Fairy) is an animation of generative glitches made by AI (LoRA) models interacting to cancel each other’s work. Adapted from a brief sequence of a serpentine dance filmed in 1896, this aimaglitch movie is an homage to dancer and choreographer Loïe Fuller. It is a "dance film" where the literal dance becomes a metaphor for generative AI's technological transformation of the source imagery.
'La Fée Électricité' positions itself at the intersection of several historical and contemporary threads: it engages with the history of motion pictures and their capacity to capture dance, continues Fuller’s tradition of combining artistic vision with technical innovation, to suggest new possibilities for translating physical performance into digital space by exploring how machine learning can interpret and transform historical artistic practices. Just as electricity transformed performance and visual culture in Fuller's era, artificial intelligence is reshaping artistic production in our own time. The work suggests continuity between these technological revolutions while highlighting their distinct aesthetic possibilities.
The work employs multiple LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) AI models in a generative conflict, where competing algorithms simultaneously create and work in opposition, producing a dynamic tension that produces unexpected glitch patterns that are specific to AI systems. This technical approach mirrors Fuller's own innovative manipulation of fabric and light. Each AI model functions as a "digital dancer," generating and transforming visual elements.