Folklore Institute

F**K POLISHED AESTHETICS: I’d say the trouble with technologists stewarding artistic tools is that they assume polish and lustre to be the goals and so they work to eradicate the uncanny. This six-year old interview with Robbie Barrat on machine learning and image generation has aged relatively well all things considered. But to look on these images is to be reminded of that thrill of glimpsing a version of ourselves in the garbled, strange, alternate image-physics of the computational.

F**K POLISHED AESTHETICS: I’d say the trouble with technologists stewarding artistic tools is that they assume polish and lustre to be the goals and so they work to eradicate the uncanny. This six-year old interview with Robbie Barrat on machine learning and image generation has aged relatively well all things considered. But to look on these images is to be reminded of that thrill of glimpsing a version of ourselves in the garbled, strange, alternate image-physics of the computational. https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/do-androids-dream-of-balenciaga-ss29