For Your Eyes Only aims to stimulate a conversation with contemporary artists about the future of human visual culture, and to investigate how they are working, in different ways, on the development of a visual language capable to resist machine vision and its implications, and to improve human visual communication—a post-AI, posthuman human vision. The exhibition includes images of diverse nature and origin, submitted as answers to questions of how humans will continue to see and understand images differently than machines do. The images in this exhibition can be used like answers, but they are rather proofs. They have been sent by a human to another human, each of them carrying much more than what I asked for. They are not delivering an answer, they are the answer. Try to read them, and you’ll soon find out that they have as many readings as readers. Enjoy, they’re for your eyes only. —Domenico Quaranta

Feral File #011 - For Your Eyes Only

“sextape” consists of an amateur pornographic video, found online and with no particular qualities, manipulated with deep fake algorithms so that the faces of Émilie Brout and Maxime Marion can be recognized. It plays with the tension of two radically opposed strategies of reputation-shaping: revenge porn (the sharing of a forged video to discredit and humiliate a person) and the voluntary leak of a real and exciting document by public figures in order to gain credibility and media visibility. The brutal evidence of this rectified ready-made clashes with its ambiguous nature: what is it, exactly? Why was it made, and why was it published?

sextape #115

What is the value?

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