Summary:
Places You’ve Never Been transforms a small personal data set of digitally scanned 35mm slides into a series of generated imagery. This series is printed back onto celluloid 35mm slides, and displayed via a carousel projector.
The familiar sound, mechanics and presence of a 35mm slide projector evokes a sensory association to specific times and experiences. By presenting visual outputs in physical mediums such as 35mm film the work examines the human association to narrative and memory when the generated imagery is viewed via such tangible mediums.
The personal archived 35mm imagery of family emigration from Canada to England and neural networks to document both a narrative experienced first-hand by her grandparent and a memory of an illusory nomadic landscape generated by a machine. When the generated imagery is developed back into 35mm film slide the experience becomes something only accessed in the imagined state of others’ minds.
This work was exhibited in The Project Room, Glasgow and was part of the 2018
AI Art Exhibition in Montreal.
Materials :
- Cycle GAN model
- 35mm Slides
- Carousel Projection
