Missing Knowing.

Описание: What happens when half of what you know comes from meaningless slop, and the other half, from only compressed interpretations of lived experience? In the medium of mixed media animation, there are missing babies in the backdrop of a town, with a reason for being that no longer exists, these babies know two things

The dimensions of their face
The feeling of almost knowing how to get home

The satisfaction of knowing the shape of their face lessens as the prospect of knowing the way home sitting at the tip of their tongue rises and falls. This back and forth creates an internal conflict of frustration that manifests in their behaviour towards each other and the world around them.
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The training data for a GAN made for this project uses a set of my drawings of faces and their corresponding AI clones. The overwhelming amount of data required to train a GAN, makes it so that the AI generated clones can be considered as slop. A form of content that, by definition, is lacking in effort and deeper meaning.

The process that creates these images are based on objective shape language, with an origin that is certain. On the other hand, the drawn faces for this GAN were made with the constraints of thinking as little as possible while drawing. Thereby making the lived experiences behind the choices uncertain.