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

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“Fractura” picks up on the modes of representation that image transformation enables. Just as Pop Art took over and somehow shifted the world of visual advertising, Gamma slightly dislocates technological images so that they reveal something other than what they are meant to. And similar to the way Pop artists were enthusiastic about the trivial world of signs, Gamma is taken with the unintentional beauty of machine art. Featuring a rotating cyborghian, genderless head, “Fractura” displays the classic elements of Gamma’s GIFs: line drawings, flat 3D objects, rotating models, body parts, an indexed color palette, all of which generate characters that somewhere on the internet have been defined “transsexual Bellmeresque zombiedroids.”

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