For Your Eyes Only aims to stimulate a conversation with contemporary artists about the future of human visual culture, and to investigate how they are working, in different ways, on the development of a visual language capable to resist machine vision and its implications, and to improve human visual communicationa post-AI, posthuman human vision. The exhibition includes images of diverse nature and origin, submitted as answers to questions of how humans will continue to see and understand images differently than machines do. The images in this exhibition can be used like answers, but they are rather proofs. They have been sent by a human to another human, each of them carrying much more than what I asked for. They are not delivering an answer, they are the answer. Try to read them, and youll soon find out that they have as many readings as readers. Enjoy, theyre for your eyes only. Domenico Quaranta

Feral File  For Your Eyes Only

Anna Carreras generative art often challenges the conventional aesthetics of the medium by generating visual outputs that are both abstract and referential, organic and artificial. Her color palette and aesthetics reveal a closer look at Mediterranean craftsmanship and landscape. Ganxillo is a generative piece inspired by her grandmothers practice of crochet textiles. Like crocheting, coding is a step-by-step handcraft, creating patterns and drawings from small geometrical stitchesa never ending, repetitive process; a mantra that generates beauty. When you observe the resulting patterns, several abstract images may emerge, becoming the starting point for new narratives and memories. Press numbers and keys, or click your mouse, to discover the pieces interactive elements.

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Daemon (chaos) is the one-half of an NFT diptych created by Petros Moris together with Theodoros Giannakis, as part of a long-term dialogue on the interfaces between biological, cultural, and machinic forms of desire and cognition. Two digitally-fabricated sculptures were photogrammetrically scanned at a shared physical location in Athens, then separated and re-rendered within a computational environment of non-linear time. Mirroring each other, the sculptural phantoms are divided and connected by an emergent membrane-system of entangled sensoria and chimeric memory. Concealed within the Daemon diptych lies a digital file that can be reconstructed after acquiring an edition of both NFTs, each containing one-half of a ZIP archive.

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In ancient Persian literature,    (Moon-faced) was a genderless adjective used to define beauty in both men and women. In contemporary Iran, it refers to the beauty of women only. Something similar happened, in the world of images, to the Qajar dynasty portrait paintings: the modernization of Iran, the influence of the European tradition of realistic painting, and the use of of camera technology and therefore photography as a model, overshadowed and ended the queer representation of genders that historically characterized these paintings, largely known for their gender-undifferentiation. For her project,   Moon-faced, Allahyari uses a carefully researched and chosen series of keywords with a multimodal AI model to generate a series of videos from the Qajar Dynasty painting archive (1786-1925). Through this collaboration, the machine program learns to paint new genderless portraits, in the effort to undo and repair a history of Westernization that ended the course of nonbinary gender representation in the Persian visual culture. The music in this video was composed by Mani Nilchiani.