The second aspect to my Error and Power proposal was for the artist to construct an image based on instructions from a computer. If the artist were to follow the instructions laid out by the JPG algorithm what would be created?  We’ve seen how an…

So far the AI program has generated tens of thousands of images, ranging from a hazy noise of green and blue to, sparing the oddly wobbly bath, almost believable bathrooms. But which of these images are ‘successful’. This question is troubling and is down to…

The software I chose to use to generate the images of bathrooms is deliberately out of date and inefficient. I chose this to help conjure up imperfect images (and my PC may not handle anything demanding more power).  I didn’t expect it to come up…

Not only does the problem of interpreting data given to the artist present a hurdle to overcome, but so does the question of colour itself. Onscreen colours are made up of red, green and blue light mixed together. Painting with these colours will produce a…

What could be some of the building blocks for a JPG? Without diving into the technical ins-and-outs, I suppose it will likely be which pixel of the image is what colour. And colour to the computer is made up of a mix of red, green…

As I waded through the images generated by the AI, there were a number of painterly images that appeared. That leads me nicely onto the other side of my proposal – getting the artist to consider the image on the terms of the computer. In…

After a prolonged session sorting images of different rooms, I now had a few thousand bathroom images separated from the sheds, kitchens and bedrooms. I added these to the original test batch from the previous post and set the PC off to work again. As…

As part of the Error and Power residency I wanted to set out to have a computer imagine images and conversely have a person to create an image as a computer would.  Images made by computers and an ‘artificial intelligence’ have come along way in…

The starting point for my proposed Artcore work is a collection of images collected from the property site Zoopla. The photography produced by and for estate agents is something that has always interested me. This vast amount of imagery is made of people’s homes, often…

As I wondered what to make my second post about, it struck me to make a small post connecting some technology and artists to the working practice behind the ‘Error and Power’ residency. Of course there have been many artworks that use cataloguing as their…