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Simulacra—2024 examines the contamination of the internet from AI-generated imagery, mirroring the pollution of natural ecosystems.

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Using a bespoke generative algorithm, the project produces synthetic portraits of endangered California species, then deconstructs and reassembles them pixel-by-pixel. In this process, artificiality is peeled back to reveal an authentic abstraction. The work exposes how machine learning collapses nuance into averages, flattening character and imperfection and asking what kind of truth remains when digital representation outlives the world it imitates.

Video: Digital (color), 53:40
Digital C-prints, 32x18-in ea.
Companion website

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Simulacra—2024 examines the contamination of the internet from AI-generated imagery, mirroring the pollution of natural ecosystems.

STEPHANIE POTTER CORWIN

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