描述
Harnessing unpredictable and transformative power of fire. This series serves as a metaphor for the emergent nature of AI itself—unpredictable, untamed, and capable of both creation and chaos. The images are a digital alchemy, where each pixel is a spark contributing to the greater flame, a vibrant dance of color and form that challenges the viewer to find meaning in the abstract. This collection is a tribute to the early stages of GAN technology, a reflection on the pixelated beginnings from which monumental advancements arise.
Channeling the fire myths of the world, Prometheus, the Phoenix, the gods of the sun and flame. A story of technology brought to humans; to myths of destruction and rebirth. To be immortal; to be a god; it is always a paradox of fire and technology. The morality of the fire is always in question but we desire it and fear it. And yet it has changed us, we have learned so much since we first touched fire. We used it to destroy the wood, smelt the metal and build the chip. And now we teach and show the fire what we know; what we create and our reflection is there telling us our faults. The GAN is but a single neuron in a blazing star; a greater fire is coming.
One of 200 unique pieces of art in Painting With Fire: A History in GANs. Exploring the history of generative adversarial networks GAN as represented by fire. https://bardionson.com/painting-with-fire
DCGAN - Radford, Alec; Metz, Luke; Chintala, Soumith . "Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks"
Bård collaborates with Lawrence Lee a notable artist known for his visions of the American southwest. They created a series of 13 art pieces called Convergence. Bård spent months training GAN models of the 50 years of paintings by Lawrence Lee. Released on SuperRare in 2020|2020|https://conifer.rhizome.org/bard_ionson/convergence/20200625115608/https://editorial.superrare.co/2020/06/23/the-shaman-convergence/