Cari Gonzalez-Casanova Invisibles Cities, 2024
Specifications
22 postcards in a case
10.5 x 15 cm
Limited to 7 copies + 1 A.P. + 1 copie H.C.
Accompanied by a certificate from the artist
The multidisciplinary artist Cari Gonzalez-Casanova collects descriptions of the dream travel destinations of the people she meets. Using recorded conversations, she captures their words, visions, dreams and imaginary sensations of these places. Using AI tools, she then generates artificial images of these real places, which she then transforms into postcards. On the back of these postcards, a sentence appears that the AI has not managed to translate into an image.
Interested in the phenomena surrounding language; its limitations in conveying complex states of perception, the subjectivity of translation and the central role that language occupies in the generation of AI images, Cari Gonzalez-Casanova subjected fantasized descriptions of cities to the AI image generator in French and then in English. This exercise revealed interesting cultural biases in the algorithmic language, but also the AI's inability to translate the sensory and poetic expressions of our fantasies.
8.66 x 7.48 x 1.97 in ( 22,5 x 19,7 x 5,4 cm )
47.24 x 47.24 x 47.24 in ( 120 x 120 x 120 cm )
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42.52 x 47.24 x 63.78 in ( 108 x 120 x 162 cm )
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Variable dmension
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Variable dmension
Unique artwork
Variable dmension
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