Online
Group Show
Post Photographic Perspectives III: Taming The Machine
Apr 28, 2024

Overview
“These works seem to emerge from the tool itself approaching some kind of pictorial approach that doesn’t shy away from the notion that these works of art come from a direct re-interpretation of what we see as “real”“
- Fernando Gallegos
Details
Post Photographic Perspectives III: Taming The Machine
The initial Fellowship program was all about photography. We worked with artists like Gregory Crewdson, Guy Bourdin, Cristina de Middel, Laurie Simmons, August Sander, and many more. We see photography as one of the mediums that created one of the most important cultural shifts of the last 200 years. Photography is everywhere, and its effects can be felt in all aspects of life and art. So when AI images started to speak a sort of "photographic" language, we believed it was imperative to address the connection between these mediums. At their core, both mediums describe the world we live in. One directly captures it, the other one is an imagined picture of the world. For our last installment of the Post Photographic Perspectives group exhibitions, we wanted to offer a clear view of how AI tools and artistic explorations we saw artists using in PPP I have changed and evolved into different visual manifestations in a period of one year.
This curatorial project looks to present a group of artists who, via their individual techniques and themes, are fighting the machine hallucinations created via AI tools to create a unique voice within the myriad of AI images being produced today. In this push and pull, new propositions of form are being developed that emanate an apparent tension between the generic production of images these algorithmic tools are intended to create and the creators' desires to impose their artistic visions.