Convolutions: Technological Specimens
2023 - present
Each Convolutions piece is a collection of technological specimens: synthetic neurons that have attuned themselves to the visual fragments found in millions of Internet photos. Each of the blurred, pixelated patterns represents a distilled technological percept, parts of grammar from an artificial intelligence’s visual language. Similar to the primal motifs learned by our brains, these abstract archetypes were collected by the artist from the landmark open-source neural networks such as AlexNet (2012) or Inception v1 (2014), capturing seminal moments in AI history.
Convolutions (12 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, inception layer 3a), I
Archival pigment print with UV coating on dibond panel, custom machine learning software. 15"x20". 2024
Convolutions (12 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, inception layer 3a), II
Archival pigment print with UV coating on dibond panel, custom machine learning software. 15"x20". 2024
Convolutions (12 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, inception layer 3a), III
Archival pigment print with UV coating on dibond panel, custom machine learning software. 15"x20". 2024
Convolutions (12 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, inception layer 3a), IV
Archival pigment print with UV coating on dibond panel, custom machine learning software. 15"x20". 2024
Convolutions (112 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, inception layer 3a)
Archival pigment print with UV coating on dibond panel, custom machine learning software. 40"x70". 2024
University of California Law School
Installed in the lobby, adjacent to the technological law lab
198 MacAllister St, San Francisco, CA, 2024
University of California Law School
Installed in the lobby, adjacent to the technological law lab
198 MacAllister St, San Francisco, CA, 2024
Convolutions (112 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, inception layer 3a)
Archival pigment print with UV coating on dibond panel, custom machine learning software. 40"x70". 2024
Curating AI, 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2024
Convolutions (64 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, convolutional layer 2), III
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 30"x30". 2024
Curating AI, 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2024
Convolutions (64 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, convolutional layer 2), II
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 30"x30". 2024
Convolutions (64 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, convolutional layer 2), I
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 30"x30". 2023
Convolutions (16 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, convolutional layer 2), I
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 12"x12". 2023
Convolutions (25 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, convolutional layer 2), I
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 20"x20". 2024
Convolutions (25 synthetic neurons from AlexNet, convolutional layer 1), II
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 20"x20". 2023
Convolutions (25 synthetic neurons from AlexNet, convolutional layer 1), I
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 20"x20". 2023
Convolutions (16 synthetic neurons from AlexNet, convolutional layer 1), II
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 12"x12". 2023
Convolutions (16 synthetic neurons from AlexNet, convolutional layer 1), I
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 12"x12". 2023
Convolutions (16 synthetic neurons from Inception v1, convolutional layer 2), II
Archival pigment print, custom machine learning software. 12"x12". 2023