Assault - with knife, 08:09 - Chad White

My project City of Roses, visualizes factual crime scene reports using AI as an exploration of camera-less photography and social phenomenon. There’s no lens, no print, and by default the work is intended to be viewed on a screen. It’s an undertaking in world-building where the scenes and characters are fictional yet plausible in their veracity, and a process not dissimilar to writing theatrical scene descriptions. When coerced enough, the AI delivers rewards in the form of images that can and do run parallel with imaginative thoughts, and at times, the process functions as a game of semiotics where one or both players are lost in translation. I cannot help but be reminded of the Jean Baud...View all