Defragmented portrait
The experience of time

 

Step 1
Series of 200 portraits made and to be made on the concept of time and our perception using applications that use Artificial Intelligence.

Reflection on the book "The Experience of Time" by Marie-Louise von Franz.
During the pandemic the virtual image has spread affecting our perception of time and distance.

The final images are created with an AI algorithm which creates a sequence of micro images on one of my photographs and superimposes them, offering me a certain number of solutions and my action is to select the most harmonious sequence.

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Step two

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The work I'm doing on the portrait with the fragmentation of photography, alternately using an algorithm or Photoshop, hence the sub-title - VaRu vs Algorithm - which I use on Instagram develops, as always on several levels.

The time taken by the algorithm is thousandth compared to what I use.

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I started this research on fragmentation in 1998, the first creations I made by cutting printed photographs and gluing them, it was a research on the perception and composition of an image and even then I was reflecting on the concept of time.

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Today, after years of studying perception, after meeting with

IPOD - Training School in Psychodrama

which led me to meet important psychology scholars who deal with the topics of my research (in this case Marie Louise Von Franz, a pupil of Jung, and in particular her book "the experience of time") and fascinated by artificial intelligence and from the Learning Machines I started this new phase.

Perception and time are modified by the use of certain algorithms.

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I was studying an algorithm that randomly modified the images.

My actions were basically three:

take the photo,

post produce it, and after the algorithm had modified it,

choose the one that I think is the most harmonious.

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