Machines of Loving Grace / AI Generated / 2023—2024
Inspired by Richard Brautigan's poem, this series is entirely AI-generated and delves into themes of utopia, control, and the physical embodiment of computational structures. Formally, the generations adhere to the physical laws of the real world — they are naturalistic and material, literally assembled from industrial components, with their verticals reminiscent of the watchtowers of medieval castles.
The machines of surveillance from the cybernetic valley — that's how the author of the poem formulated them. In my interpretation, they represent an endless cycle of generating attention generators and soft, transparent control. Their subtle expressiveness is intentional — they immigrate beneath objects of technical commonplace — boilers, vacuum cleaners, servers — to seamlessly integrate into the environment and organically populate the utopian setting.
See next — I might be wrong