A dynamic AI artwork in a state of perpetual change. A digital character is merged into a separate digital environment using neural networks. The merging of identity and environment creates artefacts through the process of gradient descent, which become the material of the artwork. The character is subsumed by its surround as traces of the merging process remain.
The elements of the AI artwork then animate and fade dynamically, but the changes are hardly perceptible. Is the character more or less visible now than it was at the start of viewing? What has changed in the scene and what is the same? The piece calls into question the reliability of memory, perception and the stability of identity.
The artwork was released as an edition of 30 NFTs, where each edition is identical, but each also different from the others at any given time.
James Bloom is a London-based artist who makes perpetually-changing digital artworks which mimic and reflect on the behaviour of the networks in which they are based. Using visual material found across the internet, he performs processes of degeneration until the images meet an inflection point. By making this imagery contingent on live dynamic data updates and viewer interactions, he reveals instances of our problematic relationship to online systems.
His series ‘BURNER’ explores the idea of constant impermanence and the disappearance of the present moment due to the perpetual flow of new information in the blockchain. His ‘GOLD’ series engages critically with the NFT art market by tracking its collectors’ behaviour and changing the pieces they own in real time, so their market activity is represented abstractly inside the frame.
He has had an abstract digital practice for over a decade and has exhibited at The Wrong Biennale, Art Basel and W1 Curates among others. His works have been shown in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Dubai and Singapore.
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