Watching (Blade Runner)
Ben Bogart / Canada
I think of subjectivity and reality as a mutual construction.
Cognitive mechanisms impose structure on reality in the form of imaginary categories that inform prediction and recognition. At the same time, the complexity of understanding the constant challenges of reality.
Cognition determines salient and most essential properties of reality, but those properties are context dependent. Is quintessence an objectively observable property of reality or a projection of the imagination? “Watching (Blade Runner)” is situated in a long body of collective work titled “Watching and Dreaming”.
Started in 2014, this series of work is the result of statistically oriented machine learning and computer vision algorithms attempting to understand popular cinematic representations of Artificial Intelligence breaking down and rebuilding itself.
Machines' understanding manifests itself in their ability to recognize, and eventually predict, the structure of the movies they watch. The images produced are the result of both the projection of the imaginary structure system and the structure of the films themselves.
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