SYNTHETIC REALITIES

AIDE-MÉMOIRE

ALCHEMY

NOWHERE NEAR

ATLAS

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL

MONO NO AWARE

RISD GRAD SHOW

DIGITAL + MEDIA BIENNIAL

OF SOILED BODIES

Installation view of Atlas at Foxy Production



ATLAS


July 7 - August 25, 2023
Foxy Production, 狐福创作空间, New York, NY

Atlas is a group exhibition including works by Joan Heemskerk, Johnathan Payne, and Lilan Yang that considers the psychic and social underpinnings of mappings—from macro to micro geographies of places, movements, and subjectivities. The artists, in differing ways, infuse visual coordinates with history, subjectivity, and desire. They refocus and remodel modes of representation that transcend figuration.


PRESS RELEASE⏎


Lilan Yang,
CineML: Paris, 2021
Video loop Dimensions variable
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Edition 1 of 3 + 2AP




Lilan Yang's video CineML: Paris (2021) is a painterly, semi-abstract animation that uses machine learning to poetically visualize the relationship between filming locations and real-life landmarks. Yang considers the ways cinematic tourism colors people's experiences and memories of the places they visit. She trained several generative adversarial network (GAN) models-in a sense creating a contest between a number of AI networks —to analyze public Instagram images of the Parisian locations of Richard Linklater's drama “Before Sunset” (2004), composing a series of computer-generated moving images based on collective documents of Paris. Images taken by people recreating their experience of the romantic film are mediated through AI to produce ethereal cityscapes.

- Texts by John Thomson






Photos by Charles Benton