About Artist
Naho Matsuda is a German-Japanese artist based in London. Her work brings together the ordinary and the absurd to explore notions of labour, internet culture, emerging technology and the commons. Her work includes; print, publications, writing, installation and performance. Naho holds a part-time post as a research assistant and tutor in the design department at Goldsmiths University.
Zig-zag
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…
Judging a successful image
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…
Clean bathrooms
The software I chose to use to generate the images of bathrooms is deliberately out of date and inefficient.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…
RGB RYB
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…
Painting like a JPG
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…
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Milgram Archive
A couple of days ago I received an answer from Yale library that looks after Stanley Milgrams Archive. Due to Covid-19 the library building is currently closed, but the library staff generously shared some digitized files and images that I had send a query for….
The Elders of the Internet
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…
Drawing
Ceiling sinks
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…