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On the “verso” side, with a glossy finish suggestive of the screens of electronic devices, appears a sequence of portraits generated from these photographs by means of the GAN. The book captures the wonderful sequence of learning of the computer. It starts by generating images with the pixels ordered at random but, little by little, the system discovers the pattern associated with the faces and it improves the creations until it obtains photographically convincing images of people who never existed. Establishing an analogy with the morphogenesis of a living being, observing the failed images produced evokes for us important steps in the history of art, such as expressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstraction...
Photobook, video and photography