Algorithmic Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility is inspired by Yves Klein's 1959-1962 piece Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle and Mitchell Chan's 2017 piece Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. In Klein's piece, he made paper certificates that represented empty zones imbued with immaterial artistic sensibility. Chan's piece translated this concept to blockchain by creating empty digital zones represented by ERC-20 tokens. Mikey Woodbridge and Ezra Shibboleth explore seven empty semantic zones in order to locate the possibility of sensitivity and sensibility in the latent space of a text-to-image diffusion model.
Pronouns are placeholders, bits of semantic inform...