| GENERATIVE EXTRAPOLATIONS
PHOTOGRAPHY AND AI
Beginning with one or more photographs, and using AI to reveal an imagined context, Generative Extrapolations examine the dialogue between human and machine visualization. The iterative process of gradual enlargement leads to the construction of images many times their original size (see video below that explores one piece at various scales).
Below, left to right: A Dis/Appearance, I, Witness, Unconscious Architecture, All Frequencies Are Loud With Signals of Despair, A Construction Sight, I Keep Asking Myself Where I Am, installation scale image.
| BUT STILL THE I PERSISTS
“I've always been interested in making resolution independent photographs. Unlike a painting, which has theoretically infinite resolution, a photograph eventually runs out of pixels. A photograph that never runs out of pixels, as you enlarge it, would be almost as resolution independent as optical reality itself.
Resolution independence can either be achieved by increasing camera megapixels, or eventually by using AI to expand into unseen, unphotographed territory — a mysterious place we discover beyond the original image. These generative extrapolations are, in that sense, the record of my journey to find what lies beyond the photographic frame.
In this piece, as the generated imagery loses resolution, creating the sense of an environment in blur and motion, the eye is drawn back to the stillness of the portrait at the picture's core.”
