RIXC, Rīga, Latvia
Dissociating Paradigms I – IV, 2019
The exhibition “Reference Metadata” features the large-scale digital graphics Dissociating Paradigms I – IV and the audio installation Interlude by the new media artist Gustavs Lociks. Using various artificial intelligence tools based on neural networks, the artist explores and depicts the alienation created by the commercial culture living in the thicket of information.
If the idea of technologically created global and geographically unlimited communication used to create a dream of a unified utopian future, now it has reached a dystopian reality, where a person is in the middle of a struggle between information and disinformation, present and past, crawling between pseudo-autonomous algorithmic statistics, called artificial intelligence.
Under the influence of the power of modern technologies and technological efforts that try to imitate biological systems, artificial intelligence has been endowed with the talent to recognize the connections (patterns) of various existing information (data) and to imitate these connections. “AI” has for some time also gone beyond the framework of a scientific research tool and has also entered consumer culture – not only as a commercial product, but also as a “free service” for the convenience of consumption. (for example, the Youtube video recommendations of the website or the “AdSense” of the technology giant Google)
The audio installation plays a sound generation of artificial intelligence “trained” from the audio tracks of advertisements. As a basic model of artificial intelligence, a WaveGAN model modified by MIT researcher Yue Ou was used, which was created primarily for continuous generation of natural sounds.
The series of visual works Dissociating Paradigms I – IV, was created using the author’s found image internet archives, as symbols for compositions, which were then passed through artificial intelligence processing tools that can enlarge images by adding missing details.
Dissociating Paradigms I – IV, 2019
References:
https://naba.lsm.lv/lv/raksts/kul/metadatu-references.-gustavs-lociks.a125183/
https://www.delfi.lv/kultura/news/art/atklas-gustava-locika-izstadi-metadatu-references.d?id=51706407
https://www.diena.lv/raksts/kd/maksla/rixc-galerija-bus-skatama-gustava-locika-izstade-_metadatu-references-reference-metadata_-14231741