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@checksvv @gillesdc So why write my signature 35,262 times? To comment on the perception gap between the authenticity of physical and digital work, and to test the assumption that physical effort or time spent correlates…

@checksvv @gillesdc The eventual owner of '1 of 1' receives a provably scarce digital original, and a hand authenticated proxy for every official copy that exists (82ft x 3ft ink on Tyvek):

@checksvv @gillesdc Final note — the accompanying physical piece is titled 'Proof of Work' a reference to the repetitive, energy intense process to create it and the chain on which the artwork will live forever. Tyvek is…

with the final auction now up and running for Latent ( I'll write up a few disparate/post-rational thoughts on the collection to try and cover the bits missed in the more polished write-ups, share a few dots that connect…

the first and most obvious is the concept of latent space as an all consuming conceptual rabbit hole the root of this idea/execution is to make obvious the massive overlap between mechanical photography and images genera…

one of the biggest reflections, in the same way you leave your house with a camera and don't know what you'll end up having the opportunity to photograph - the neural network as a medium can function like this but with a…

first one, "prompting the environment" is to do with the broad assumption that working with a neural network to generate images is about describing exactly what you want it to do, which is how I interfaced with it origin…

the final 80 pieces in the collection are derived from around 8,000 outputs, 1% or so making the cut there are also dozens of visually disparate pieces born from the same prompt - an inversion of the assumption I started…

and in hindsight, a prompt is really describing the parameters of a dream, tapping into a subconscious mind much vaster than my own the best way to describe the process is something like "exporting frames" from a dream,…

one point I don't think I mentioned anywhere else, is that I tried to explain the concept to an LLM in parallel, then set some parameters for naming the works, then let it go to work 80% or so of the works it got first t…

there were multiple instances in conversations that I had in person that felt like a genuine epiphany had occurred when making this comparison the visual treatment of the digital piece (white on black) is a choice made t…

@visualizevalue and the work following that, attempts to involve the network itself in shaping the artwork latent nods back with both its edition size (80 checks) and persistent composition (outputs loosely conform to th…