Synthetic Media
The Synthetic media I found is Machine Hallucination by Refik Anadol. The work has been on view at Artechouse, a new digital art space in New York's Chelsea Market. It is a typical synthetic art because the work significantly relies on algorithms, computers, and AI. The reason it is called Machine Hallucination is very much started with the idea of the "mind of a machine" as the Artist said, "if a machine can learning, so can it dreaming?" Several big screens make the installation in the space to let audiences feel into the artwork. The art piece is very much about data, different algorithms, and machine learning. It starts with 300 million publicly available images of New York City that Anadol and his studio used the neural network and various modifications to find. And also, they took off all the human figures in those data they found. After processing this massive audio and visual data, the StyleGAN algorithm was then programmed to "dream"—bas...