Psychopomp

Background

My research explores the perverse interface between bodies and the contemporary media landscape. The broad field of this research is ‘art & technology’ and the narrow field is ‘representations of the body’. In addition the research relates to the discourses of media, photography and the emerging field of AI generated Art

Contribution

My contribution was 4 photographic prints. The research identifies a gap in the knowledge of the relationship of AI and contemporary art and the human body. The work explores themes of body abjection, the uncanny and uncomfortable using outdated AI software so as to avoid the generic plastic and highly realistic look of so much of AI imagery. My work depicts the body as full of errors and mistakes. The theme of the exhibition Psychopomp, a guider of souls, and AI operating here as a kind of in-between zone of the living and the dead

Significance

The exhibition will be the inaugural exhibition at the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography, in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a highly significant event, being one of the first curated shows of AI at the prestigious Roger Ballen centre for photography. The work was selected and curated by international art curator Boris Eldagsen. In addition it received support from The School of Art at RMIT research funding. Numerous press articles covered the exhibition.