AI now
David Hearne
Opening Dates :
Thursday 11 – Sunday 14 July 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm daily
Opening Event :
Friday 12 July 2024, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
AI now is a body of digital artwork by David Hearne exploring the esoteric nature of how word prompts create a pictorial entity using artificial intelligence.
Using the portrait as the subject, the themes of beauty and identity have been explored and presented. Exploring the fleeting and everlasting nature of beauty coupled with the currency for a needed conversation on the positive and negative impact digital identity has on our identity, the work will reflect a new vision of how artificial intelligence can be used as a tool in the arts.
“To take the exhibition to another level I have referenced my analog video (vhs) documentation from various performance art installations (from Darlinghurst, Melbourne, Wagga Wagga and Hobart between 1987-1993) in which early investigations of identity were investigated. I converted these tapes to digital mp4 files. Handing them over, (in collaboration with Dylan Oswin) he has run a lens of artificial intelligence (using stable diffusion) over the moving image. The result has created images of hallucinogenic qualities. The forms take on the likes of Piccininni’s hybrid creatures, visions of metamorphic entrails like that used in dissection performances by Nitsch and the mangled distorted and grotesque forms of which I use in my expressive figurative painting style. This further impacts on the two-dimensional work and takes the show to another level.
AI now, is here and is proudly the first digital body of artwork using Artificial Intelligence presented in Hobart. I hope this show evokes a valuable conversation and the place artificial intelligence has in the visual arts.”
– David Hearne
