Convolutions: Technological Specimens

2023 - present

In the 16th-century tradition of European Kunstkammern, each Convolutions piece serves as a collection of scientific specimens: synthetic neurons attuned to the visual fragments found in millions of Internet photos. Each blurred, pixelated pattern represents a distilled technological percept — parts of the visual grammar from an artificial intelligence's language, akin to the primal motifs learned by our brains. The artist has collected these abstract archetypes from the landmark open-source neural networks, such as AlexNet (2012) or Inception v1 (2014), capturing pivotal moments in AI history when new models irreversibly shaped society’s relationship with technology. Embedded in these “cabinets of curiosity” is the tension between the machine’s square gridded design and its tendency to learn organically shaped forms on gray backgrounds.