View Of The Uncanny Valley Part 2 No. 2 - A.I. assisted Landscape Photograph

Limited Edition of 5 + 1 A.P. Part of a series of Landscape Photographs of landscapes that do not exist. I generated the images using a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network). A GAN is a form of Artificial Intelligence, a deep neural network computer program consisting of two nets, a Generator and a Discriminator, which have an adversarial relationship. A GAN can be taught to mimic any distribution of data. In this case Landscape Photographs were fed to the program and I then played with the parameters and "bred" new images over and over again until I obtained the image you see. Originally coined by Masahiro Mori in 1970, the term “uncanny valley” describes our strange revulsion toward things that appear nearly human. I have broadened the definition to apply to landscape in a pun on the word "valley". As we humans destroy our own natural environment, one day we may have to inhabit an artificial habitat generated for us by A.I.'s. It is towards this dystopian, but increasingly likely future that this project looks.

Photography:Digital on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.