Tabula Rasa (pt,256,16,1)

2020

Given that we can’t help but use human terms to describe the behavior of AI systems, might machine “emotions” be a new way for us to approach and understand AI? Could romanticism – emphasizing the free expression of the machine’s emotions as the most authentic source of aesthetic experience – be the foundation for a new AI aesthetic?

These works are an exploration of the materiality of AI. Treating the machine as a Tabula Rasa, or blank slate, Young traines it with no more than a handful of images – solid colors or basic shapes. The resulting works ask us to consider the emotions that might be present in the machine as it creates.

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