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The project is framed within the research that Pilar Rosado has been conducting for years regarding the new possibilities that artificial creativity offers to artists. In this exhibition, she proposes to explore the classical distinction between natural and artificial objects. It is a futile attempt to reconstruct the image of 16 extinct or endangered plant species using generative algorithms from Deep Learning, a technology that is exceptionally controversial because it presents an alternative form of intelligence to our own.
It would be wonderful to think about the resurrection of extinct animals and plants, but this approach would expose a series of contradictions: which species should we start with, and what criteria should we use to determine our priorities? The beauty of a species? Its "utility" in the environment? And if we manage to "resurrect" a tree or an animal, how will they fare in the present if their original ecosystem has changed? Could they, for some unforeseen reason, pose a threat to modern ecosystems?
Natural selection speaks to us of the "survival of the fittest" and the "extinction of the unfit." In the era of digital technology and synthetic biology, the fittest could be the most unexpected. This project addresses, from the perspective of post-photography, the boundaries between nature and technology, the frontiers of impossibility.
Photography and video