Working with AI art sometimes feels like gazing into a pond of water. In a still pond, we see a clear, gently blurred version of ourselves staring back at us, while turbulent waters return rippled echoes of our shape. These changing reflections of ourselves are similar to images generated from data, which can be hyperrealistic depictions of the original, or images that are surreal and barely recognizable, as errors creep in. This exhibition looks at the way artists represent nature and humans, using the latest machine learning technologies to conjure seascapes, imaginary marine creatures, autumn leaves, and musings on the human form. Masks and faces akin to the grotesque rear their heads, reminding us of the early errors of these technologies and the eternal human fascination with depicting ourselves. These artists present AI as a tool to craft new reflections on perennial subjects, as well as a creative partner, conjuring new landscapes, creatures, and forms. Luba Elliott

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Scott Eaton&rsquo;s &ldquo;Contemplating Motion&rdquo; is an exploration of human motion, abstracted in time. The piece combines video shot by the artist with a custom neural network. The neural network driving the aesthetic of this piece began as an experiment attempting to teach an AI about reflections&mdash;could it learn to reflect things outside of its immediate view? &nbsp;This task requires a type of &lsquo;visual imagination&rsquo; that artists cultivate when training to draw or paint. The resulting network, though often unpredictable, dynamically renders form from silhouette, imagining sophisticated plane changes inside the figure with highlights continuously rising and falling from these surfaces. The work was modified to allow the neural network to fade the motion through time, continuously moving and then forgetting, in some ways reflecting the mind of the dancer as she improvised the movement.

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